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The Bates Steam Laundry was first opened to the public January G, 
1890, and has since built up a large and growing trade among those 
who are most discriminating as regards the manner in which their linen 
is laundered. The proprietor, Mr, O. I. Bates, has had an experience in 
the business of eighteen years and gives all the details of the business 
his personal and constant supervision, with the result that only perfect 
work is accomplished. The premises occupied are comprised in a store 
and basement each 25x200 feet in dimensions, which afford ample 
accommodations for a large trade. No family washing is done, shirts, 
collars and cuffs being the special feature of the business. All shirts 
are ironed solely by hand, shirt-ironing machines having been discarded, 
better shape and longer wear being thus insured than is possible by the 
use of machines. A comparison of the quality of the work done here 
with that of many others will result in making any investigator a 
permanent patron of the Bates Steam Laundry. Work called for and 
delivered to any part of the city. 



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Inception and Development. 

A large amount of matter has been collected and published with 
regard to the early history of Binghamton, which is doubtless highly 
interesting reading to those who by descent are naturally proud of the 
exploits of their forefathers. To the reader for whom this work is 
designed, such details, however, would prove of but little interest ; yet, 
while it is not our purpose to enter minutely into them, it is proper for 
us to embody, at the inception of this book, a few of the more notable 
facts in the development of this populous locality, from the trackless 
waste it once was. 

The territory embraced within the present limits of Binghamton was 
granted, by royal patent, June 27, 1780, to William Bingham and others. 
Mr. Bingham was born in England and came to America when a young 
man. His residence and place of business was Philadelphia. He was 
well educated and had studied law in England, though on coming to 
America he adopted the pursuit of a merchant. 

The first permanent settler within the territory was Captain Joseph 
Leonard, originally of Plymouth, Mass., who came with his family in 
1787. A few weeks later came Colonel William Rose and his brother, 
traveling on foot from Connecticut. Other settlers followed, and within 
a year twenty families had located a mile or so above the confluence of 
the Chenango and Susquehanna rivers, the hamlet being known as 
" Chenang Pint." 

In early times this region was covered with a dense growth of pine 
forest, and was, during the first stages of settlement, chiefly a lumber 
region. All business was then based upon this interest, it being re- 
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return for labor in cash. The rivers furnished easy transit to market, 
and a raft of pine promised almost immediate results. So little atten- 
tion did many of the early settlers pay to raising their own bread, that 
they went abroad even for their garden vegetables. 

Previous to the year 1799 no village had been thought of where the 
City of Binghamton stands. During that year a charter was granted 
for building a bridge across the Chenango, and the residents of the 
" Point," realizing the importance of such a structure, removed en masse 
to the more favored locality, the first house being erected at what is 
now the southeast corner of Court and Water streets. 

Mr. Bingham's policy toward settlers fostered emigration to the new 
hamlet, which, being so eligibly situated, made a steady growth and 
soon became an important trading center under the name of Bingham- 
ton, so called from its benefactor. 

The Village of Binghamton was incorporated by an act of the 
Legislature on May 3, ISoi. By this act the corporate limits were fixed 
and the Village divided into five wards. 

During the year 1834 the construction of the Chenango canal was 
begun. It was finished in the spring of 1837 and gave Binghamton 
water connection with the Erie canal at Utica. This canal built up the 
interests of Binghamton rapidly. Simultaneously with the excitement 
throughout the State over the construction of canals, agitation of the 
subject of railroad building began. In 1849 the Erie railroad was com- 
pleted from New York to Binghamton. The opening of this road so 
greatly enlarged the commercial facilities of Binghamton that the 
natural advantages of its situation began to be more apparent. Projects 
for the building of other roads soon began to be entertained. From the 
south came the Lackawanna, furnishing an outlet for the Wyoming 
Valley and the rich coal fields of Northern Pennsylvania. Then came 
the Syracuse and Binghamton, the Albany and Binghamton, and later 
the LTfica and Chenango Valley. In 18G7 Binghamton had attained a 
population of about 11,000 inhabitants, and during that year assumed a 
City form of government. 

Binghamton in 1 892. 

It has been somewhat irreverently said that ''God made the country 
and man made the town." Were this true of other cities the saying has 
but a partial application to Binghamton, whose grand ''umbrageous 
temples not made with hands " are the glory of the streets and avenues 
and the pride of the inhabitants. As a place of residence Binghamton 
is unsurpassed, if indeed equalled by any other city in New York. Its 
velvety lawns, fine river, valley and mountain drives, its shaded streets, 
its agreeable climate, the prevalence of thrift and comfort apparent 
even in the dwellings of the working people, and the numerous spacious 
and costly mansions of the rich, together with unsurpassed religious 
privileges and educational facilities combine to make this city one of 
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Binghamton is the capital of Broome County, one of the most thriv- 
ing counties in the State of New York. It is beautifully situated at the 
confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers, about seven miles 
as the crow flies from the northern bounds of Pennsylvania. The city 
embraces an area of about four square miles. Beyond, and contiguous 
to the city lines, the territory is closely built, the suburbs containing a 
population of from 3,500 to 4,000 inhabitants who work in Binghamton 
and should be annexed. The site on which the city stands comprises 
not only the extended area of table land intervening between the con- 
verging rivers, but the valleys lying along the opposite banks, both of 
the Susquehanna and the Chenango. The latter river divides that por- 
tion of the city lying north of the Susquehanna in a northerly and 
southerly direction into two nearly equal parts. The different sections 
are connected together by substantial and convenient free bridges. 

The city, except where tho rivers enter and pass out, with valleys 
of greater or less width, is environed with hills. Those which lie upon 
the north, divided by the Chenango, and those upon the south, along 
the line of the Susquehanna, have a nearer proximity to the city than 
those which lie towards the other points of the compass. The hills do 
not reach the dignity of mountains, but their easy slopes and their rich 
and distinctive foliage give them a beautiful and picturesque appear- 
ance. 

Divided into three parts by the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers, 
which here unite their waters, it forms a scene at once picturesque and 
beautiful, filling the beholder with admiration. Looking to the north, 
to the south, to the east, to the west, a scene of such rich and varied 
beauty is presented to the view that but little else could heighten its 
charms or add to its attractiveness. 

Binghamton has had a healthy and a rapid growth during the last 
half-dozen years. In 1870 its population was 12,692: in 1875, 15,550, in 
1880. 17,315, and in 1890, when the last general census was taken, 35,093. 
A careful census at the present time would probably show not less than 
38,000. 

A City of Homes. 

This designation cannot be improved upon, for after admiring the 
splendid residences of the wealthy and the handsome houses of the well- 
to-do, the eye of ttie visitor will rest with infinite pleasure upon the 
houses of the mechanic, the clerk, the young business man and the 
laborer, miles and miles of streets being lined with neat but inexpensive 
houses, often surrounded by a plot of ground, and each owned by its 
occupant. Land has never been held at fancy prices, and the result is 
as has been stated. The reasonable prices at which the working classes 
have been able to obtain the great boon of owning their own domiciles 
has materially enhanced the welfare of the city, and apart from stimu- 
lating habits of thrift, has created a class of citizens who are content, 
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in labor troubles. The savings banks and numerous building and loan 
associations have done much good in this direction by loaning money at 
low rates of interest to mechanics and others, to enable them to own 
their own houses. Numerous capitalists also stand ready to build and 
sell houses, payment to be made in small weekly sums, out of the sav- 
ings of wages, and no mechanic with steady employment and decent 
wages need be without a home of his own in Binghamton for any length 
of time if he desires to have one. Hundreds of houses have been built 
in this way in the past few years and the suburbs of Binghamton are 
rapidly filling up with neat and tasteful homes for the masses. 

The Streets 

Are almost always the first subject of remark by visitors to the city, 
and worthily so, both on account of their width, cleanliness and fine 
shade trees, with which they are almost universally lined. The streets 
of Binghamton are regularly and tastefully laid out, many of them be- 
ing very wide and spacious. The streets belonging to the city approxi- 
mate fifty miles in length. Court street is the principal business thor- 
oughfare. Washington street is next in importance, followed by State, 
Water, Chenango. Collier and Wall. The streets in the business part 
of the city are well paved. 

Walks and Drives. 

The country surrounding Binghamton affords a great variety of 
delightful walks and drives, and presents many attractive and interest- 
ing views. Many of the drives, especially along the rivers, up or down^ 
abound in romantic and picturesque scenery. 

The Rivers. 

The Susquehanna river, which forms so important an adjunct to 
Binghamton, takes its rise in Otsego Lake. It flows in graceful sweeps 
and curves in a southerly direction after entering the county of Broome, 
crosses the Pennsylvania line and makes a great bend in that State, re- 
enters New York State again, flowing in a northwesterly direction to 
Binghamton. Here it is joined by the Chenango and their united waters 
flow to the west border of the county in a direction a little south of west. 
The Chenango river has its rise in Oneida county. 

These rivers, as viewed from the bridges — whether one looks up or 
down the Chenango, or up or down the Susquehanna — present a uni- 
formly rapid current of about six miles an hour, with beautifully clean 
bottoms and banks, sparkling waters, and, in many places, shaded and 
well-kept lawns extending down to the water's edge. The scene pre- 
sented is rather rural than commercial, but Binghamton derives much 
benefit from the rivers in beauty and recreation, pleasure boating be- 
ing quite a feature, and the rapidity of the current, the purity and un- 
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Bridges. 

We have said that the different sections of Binghamton are con- 
nected by bridges. The bridges number five. The uppermost of these, 
crossing the Chenango river at Ferry street, is a fine suspension bridge, 
360 feet in length between towers. The Court street bridge, crossing 
the Chenango lower down, is 35S feet long. The Rock-bottom bridge, 
an iron structure of fine workmanship, is the uppermost one on the 
Susquehanna, crossing at Carroll street, with a length between the shore 
abutments of 540 feet. The lower Susquehanna bridge, an iron struc- 
ture, at the foot of Washington street, is about 700 feet long. A foot- 
bridge for the convenience of pedestrians also crosses the Susquehanna 
at the foot of Exchange street. 

Climatic and Sanitary. 

No consideration is more'essential to the continued prosperity and 
happiness of a community than health. Statistics prove that Bingham- 
ton is one of the most healthful cities in the country. Its climate is 
pure'^and genial, the temperature being modified by the rivers. The 
City is elevated 850 feet above tide- water, giving the air a life-giving 
quality unsurpassed. The City is subject to no prevailing diseases, is 
well drained, and its sanitary condition is well regulated by an efficient 
board of health. In comparison with other cities the percentage of 
mortality in Binghamton is about the lowest in the State. The natural 
features of soil, climate and topography are conducive to health, and 
the natural drainage of locality has saved the tax-payers' pockets and 
preserved his health. With the introduction of water-works the neces- 
sary sewers followed to make perfect the sanitary system. A practical, 
well-built system of sewers drains the principal sections of the city, to 
which branch lines are annexed as required. Public improvements and 
regulations are constantly lowering the rate of mortality, while the 
population increases in defiance of the ordinary rule of nature. Typhoid 
fever, one of the direst enemies of large cities, is practically unknown 
here. 

Water Works. 

Binghamton has an excellent system of water works. The works 
are city property and are located in the east part of the city, the water 
being taken from wells sunk below the bed of the river and filtered 
through the sand and gravel of the naturally porous soil from a great 
depth, thus making it cool and pure. It is also abundant in quantity 
and may be increased to any extent required by additional wells or by 
the driving of tubes. The current of the water in these wells is from 
the hills toward the river, showing that pure mountain water is ob- 
tained. The works are equipped with two Holly pumping engines and 
four large boilers for generating power. The capacity is 18,000,000 gal- 
lons per twenty-four hours, which being far greater than the demand, 
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country. The efficiency of the water works is proven by the rates of 
fire insurance, which are from twenty to forty per cent, lower than in 
Syracuse, the nearest sister city. 

Fire Department. 

Among other good things Binghamton possesses an excellent fire 
department, which, though a volunteer department, is well organized 
and disciplined and has shown itself capable of most efficient service in 
arresting and preventing the spread of conflagrations. Most of the 
companies own their buildings. The department consists of two steam- 
ers, seven hose companies, two chemical engines, one hook and ladder 
company, a fire alarm telegraph system, 375 hydrants and other neces- 
sary apparatus of the latest improved character. The firemen are 
trained and expert, and the service is upon an efficient basis. 

Police Department. 

All parts of the city are well patrolled by a sturdy and experienced 
force of police, which, we are happy to say, owing to the orderly char- 
acter of the community and the absence of that tough element, more 
notable in larger cities, has little occasion for extreme measures, though 
the vigilance of the department is in no wise neglected for these 
reasons. 

Educational. 

It may be taken for granted that a city of enterprise and intelli- 
gence, such as Binghamton, has considered matters of education of 
primary importance. No expense has been spared in perfecting and 
developing a complete system of public schools, and not content with 
this,several scholastic institutions of high rank have here found adequate 
support and management. Schools of the best order, freely accessible 
to the poorest child in the city, are in daily operation. Every child so 
far belongs to the State. Ignorance is more costly than schools, and 
no investment can be so uniformly productive of good returns to the State 
as that devoted to the culture of those who themselves are soon to be 
the State, Hence; the doors of the public schools are thrown wide open 
and the children are welcome without money or price, not from the 
parlors of the rich only, but also from the highways and ditches. In 
the matter of schools, the city has certainly little to ask for, and its 
citizens point with pardonable pride to its splendid system of public 
schools, with its high school, which is unsurpassed in the State, in re- 
spect either of the conveniences of the building or the completeness of 
its appointments for teaching the higher branches of a common school 
education. There are sixteen public schools in Binghamton employing 
111 teachers: two ladies' seminaries, two business colleges, one school 
of stenography and one kindergarten. 



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St. Joseph's Academy. 

This is a Catholic institution conducted by the Sisters of St. Joseph. 
The academy is beautifully located near the junction of the Chenango 
and Susquehanna rivers, and is an importa it feature in the educational 
department of Binghamton. It was established in 18<J-2 and is one of the 
most flourishing institutions of learning in the State. 

Susquehanna Valley Home. 

This institution is pleasantly situated on high ground overlooking 
the city and its purpose is to provide a home for the friendless orphans 
and children of indigent parents Its wards are gathered from the 
counties of Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Tioga and Tomp- 




RESIDENCE OF IVIR. C. A. WILKINSON, FRONT STREET. 

kins. This institution is the pioneer in this country having for its pri- 
mary object the removal of children from the county poor houses. 
Through its influence and example the law of 187G was enacted, prohib- 
iting the placing of children between the ages of three and sixteen years 
in the alms-houses of the State and providing for their care and edu- 
cation. 

City School Library. 

The City School Library was established in 18(31, when the Board of 
Education purchased, as a nucleus, the library of the Y. M. C. A. Ad- 
ditions have been made to the library every year, and the whole number 
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pupils, on signing application and pledge to abide by the rules of the 
library, are entitled to free use of books. The library is open Mondays, 
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, between the hours of 
2 and G, and Saturdays between the hours of 2 and 8 p. m., except legal 
holidays and at such time as it is closed by order of the Board of Edu- 
cation. 

The Public Institutions 

Of Binghaniton are of great importance and usefulness, presenting 
very substantial evidence of the city's accumulating wealth and of its 
eminently thorough and practical character. Among them are the Y. 
M. C. A., which occupies a prominent place among the public organiza- 
tions of the city; the Binghamton City Hospital, the Binghamton State 
Hospital, St. Mary's Orphan Home, the House of the Good Shepherd, 
the Public Library, etc. 

Binghamton State Hospital. 

Standing out in bold relief on the hill east of the city, like a grim 
and silent sentinel, is a magnificent granite pile, occupied by those poor 
unfortunates— the chronic insane. The institution was formerly a State 
Inebriate Asylum. The site comprises over 252 acres of land, and was 
presented by the citizens of Binghamton. The grounds are devoted to 
suitable walks and lawns, and to farming purposes. The main struc- 
ture is 365 feet in length, three stories high, in the castellated Gothic 
style, with massive towers, turrets and buttresses, embattled at the top. 
Adjoining the hospitil proper are numerous other buildings for various 
uses. The ceremonies of laying the corner-stone took place September 
24, 1858. The hospital is located about two miles eastward from the 
Court House, some 240 feet above the water, and commands a view of 
the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers and valleys for eight or nine 
miles each way. From the hospital grounds the best views of the city 
can be obtained. 

Binghamton City Hospital. 

This worthy institution is located at the upper end of Court street^ 
on the bank of the Susquehanna river. It was first opened March 1, 
1888. and has twenty beds. The domestic affairs of the hospital are en- 
trusted to a board of fifteen lady managers. The medical department 
is in charge of a medical director and a staff of eight physicians and 
surgeons. 

House of the Good Shepherd. 

This institution was originally an old ladies' home, and later a gen- 
eral hospital was added by the Church of the Good Shepherd. The 
general hospital was abolished on the organization of the City Hospital, 
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St. Mary's Orphan Home. 

This institution is located on College Hill, and has about 100 orphans 
.in charge. The asylum occupies a building founded in 1854 and known 
as the Susquehanna Seminai-y. 

Young Men's Christian Association. 

The Young Men's Christian Association was organized in 1865, and 
it has steadily grown in public favor and usefulness until its many-sided 
work of to-day is looked upon as a necessity. The Association owns a 
valuable property, located at Nos. 7 and 9 Court street, and occupies 
about half of the building for its own use. The building contains a large 
reading room and library, lecture room, parlors, hall, office, rooms of 




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the boys' department, etc. The Railroad Department, located at 60 
Lewis street, is supported by the railroad companies centering here and 
is doing a valuable work among their employes. The building contains 
reading and amusement rooms, bath rooms, library, rest room, commit- 
tee rooms, etc. 

The Binghamton Board of Trade. 

The Binghamton Board of Trade was incorporated February 15, 1887. 
Its membership numbers 200. The objects of the association are to in- 
culcate just and equitable principles in trade; to establish and maintain 
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valuable business information; to protect and foster the mercantile and 
manufacturing industries; to promote the commerce of the city of Bing- 
hamton, and its general prosperity, by the solicitation of manufacturers 
and business enterprises to locate within its boundaries and adjacent 
territory; the promulgation of the advantages possessed by Binghamton 
as a desirable place of residence and for the employment of capital; the 
use of all proper means to obtain legislation, National. State and Muni- 
cipal, favorable to the interests of the city and its inhabitants; the ex- 
tension of facilities of transportation, and the protection of the trade of 
the city from unjust discrimination in rates of freight and otherwise; 
and generally by uniform and well directed efforts to advance and extend 
the welfare and promote the commercial integrity of the business com- 
munity. 

By such organized efforts as the above it is hoped that the manufac- 
turing interests of the city, which have already attained great com- 
mercial importance and stability, will be enlarged and quickened with 
new life. The membership of the Board of Trade, pledged to the promo- 
tion of these objects, affords a guarantee that every well devised plan 
and project to further it will be liberally backed and supported. Rapid 
as have been its strides within the past decade, the next generation will 
see an enlargement of Binghamton's manufacturing interests commen- 
surate with its commercial importance. 

The Board of Trade makes the following offers to manufacturers: 

1st. Free building sites, with the finest locations on trunk lines of 
railways. • 

2d. To erect buildings and rent same for term of years for 6 per 
cent, net on cost of building. 

3d. To give land free and 10 per cent, of cost of the buildings erected 
l)y manufacturers. 

Concerning the opportunities for establishing business enterprises 
here, all inquiries addressed to F. Newell Gilbert, Sec'y Board of Trade, 
Binghamton, N. Y., will receive prompt attention. 

Inducements to Manufacturers. 

The right place to manufacture successfully is evidently at a point 
where the raw materials accumulate naturally, and where, at the same 
time, there is cheap power and advanced and ample facilities for mar- 
keting the product. Binghamton pre-eminently furnishes these condi- 
tions. Situated at a focal point of seven great railroads, connecting the 
city with the markets of the whole country, and the lumber and coal 
regions of the immediate vicinity, material necessarily accumulates 
here, and cheap power is amply provided and assured for all time. 
Opportunities can be obtained here by the manufacturer superior to 
those of larger cities, for the reason that while equal facilities are found 
here, at the same time the best positions are available at comparatively 
little cost. Excellent coal, iron, hard-wood lumber and other materials 
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facilities for distributing the product. The manufacturer who locates 
here will find everything at hand for the successful furtherance of his 
enterprise, and a friendly and helping hand will be offered him by every 
citizen of the community. In brief, some of the general advantages 
and attractions of Binghamton are : 

1st. It is located in one of the most fertile and productive portions, 
of New York State, and in one of the most thriving and prosperous 
agricultural counties of the State. 

2d. It is an important railroad centre, with outlets in every direc- 
tion. 

3d. It therefore possesses the advantages of railway competition^ 
all competing lines expressing and showing a liberal spirit toward all 
manufacturing enterprises. 

4th. It is situated in close proximity to coal and iron fields, and 
has competing and direct railway lines thereto. 

5th. It has competing railway lines to New York, to Boston, and 
to the West. It has direct rail communication with Lake Ontario. 

(jth. The government of the city is based on the strictest ideas of 
economy, consistent with safe and sure progress, and the spirit of the 
people is decidedly in favor of every measure intended to make the rate 
of taxation low. 

7th. It is rich in capital, strong in credit, untrammeled by debt, 
with small taxation, light municipal expenses, and cheap real estate, 
destined to advance rapidly in value. 

8th. Statistics show that it is one of the healthiest cities in the 
Union, subject to no contagious diseases, and free from prevailing 
sickness. 

9th. Its public school system is one of the best in the State and 
afi^ords excellent educational facilities. 

10th. The cost of living is much less than in larger cities. 

11th. Its social advantages are numerous, the tone of society 
healthy, and the morals of the community beyond dispute. 

In fact, no city in the Union offers so many advantages to the 
small or large manufacturer as does Binghamton at the present day. 

The business men who control the capital have been trained to 
other pursuits, and have made their money there, and many of them may 
not now be fitted for a change, hence the opening must be filled princi- 
pally by incoming capitalists and manufacturers, who will find local 
capitalists ready to join hands with skillful and enterprising managers. 
The introduction of new manufacturing entei'prises will increase the 
opportunities of the retail merchant to establish successful mercantile 
enterprises, and the general growth and development of the city will be 
stimulated. The question is frequently asked, What can be manufac- 
tured in Binghamton to the best advantage ? The simplest answer and 
an absolutely true one is : Everything. A good idea of what can be 
done may be obtained by a glance at the prosperous and flourishing 
branches of manufacturing business now carried on here. 



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Our Products 

Now include acids, ale, aerated beverages, agricultural implements, 
architectural iron work, awnings, black-boards, blind staples, blank 
books, boilers, boots and shoes, boxes, brass goods, brushes, bricks, 
biscuits, baking powder, baskets, bed springs, butter packages, buttons, 
beer, cabinet work, carriages, carriage and saddlery hardware, carriage 
trimmings, car trimmings, chairs, chemicals, cigars, cigar boxes, cloth- 
ing, coffees and spices, combs, confectionery, corn meal, canned fruits 
and vegetables, cider, cooperage stock, crackers, curtain fixtures, cutlery, 
cutters and sleighs, dairy products, dental goods, doors, sash and blinds, 
edge tools, electrical supplies, electro-plating, electric light, elevators 
(grain), engines, extracts, flags, flexible shafts, flour and feed, foundry 
work, furniture, fruit extracts, fur garments, gas, galvanized iron work, 
grocers' supplies, glass bottles, gloves and mittens, gold and silver plat- 
ing, granite monuments, grates, grass seed, hardware, harness, head- 
ings, hoes and tools, horse clothing, hoops, horse collars, hubs and 
spokes, iron work, jewelry, lager beer, lubricators, leather, lumber and 
lumber products, lithographs, machinery, mantels, marble monuments, 
medicines, mince meat, models and patterns, mouldings, nickel plating, 
oils, optical goods, organs, overalls, outing garments, pants and shirts, 
paper boxes, paper, patterns, pharmaceutical preparations, pork 
products, pumps, pianos, phosphates, pie preparations, picture 
frames, printing presses, provisions, roofing materials, rubber stamps, 
saddlery hardware, sash, doors and blinds, sausages, scales, shirts, 
shoes, sheet-iron work, society goods, staves, signs, sleds, soap, spices, 
stairs, staples, steam heating plants, stencils, stone work, tacks, tents, 
tinware, tools, tobacco, umbrellas, upholstered furniture and chairs, 
varnishes, wagons, violins, wagon brakes, water motors, whips, wire 
goods, wood pulp, wood-working machinery, wheels and woolen 
blankets. 

The most important industries of the city are those devoted to the 
manufacture of cigars, boots and shoes, chairs, carriages and sleighs, 
leather, overalls and clothing, scales, grass seeds, combs and buttons, 
outing garments and machinery, engines and boilers. The Lestershire 
Boot and Shoe Company recently moved to Lestershire, two and one- 
quarter miles west of the center of the city, is one of the largest indus- 
tries of its kind in the country. The Whitney-ISroyes Seed Company is 
the largest enterprise of its kind in the world. Binghamton is the second 
cigar producing city in the United States, and the great cigar factories 
of Barlow, Rogers & Simpson, Reynolds, Rogers & Co., George A. 
Kent & Co., Hull, Grummond & Co., C. B. Smith, Jr., & Co., John 
Gumberg & Co., Lyman Clock, Son & Co., have an output varying 
from ten to twenty millions each, annually, the first named having 
one year reached the enormous quantity of over 22,000.000. The 
engines and boilers of Shapley & Wells are shipped to all parts 
of the civilized world, while the scales made by Jones of Bing- 
hamton are used in every country on the globe. The overalls, 



20 • THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



pants and shirts made by the Bennett Manufacturing Company, 
Reed B. Freeman, the Freeman Overall Company and Smith, 
Kinney & Co. bear the highest reputation in the market and are in 
demand in all parts of the Union. The chairs manufactured by Wilkin- 
son & Eastwood, the Binghamton Chair Company and Stickley Brothers 
have the lead in the great markets of the country. The Osgood & 
Thompson combination hay scales are a wonderful improvement in 
farm scales and are in great demand. The cutters and sleighs of the 
Sturtevant-Larrabee Company are widely recognized as the best in the 
market, and the sleds and express wagons made by the Wilkinson Man- 
ufacturing Company go away in car-load lots to lighten the hearts of 
millions of children in all parts of America. The Binghamton Manu- 
facturing Company control a high-class trade for their superior outing 
garments, which reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The great 
tannery of J. B. Weed & Co. is the largest in America, and that of 
Wilkinson. Sons & Co. makes a new process leather that is in demand 
throughout the country. Alonzo Roberson's new wood-working plant 
is the largest and most advantageously situated of any in the State, 
and both he and Bartlett & Co. are shipping sash, doors and blinds and 
other lumber products in enormous quantities to the trade. Of the other 
industries nam^d each is represented by from one to half a dozen or 
more concerns and all are in a prosperous condition with uniformly 
increasing trade and output. 

Commercial. 

The wholesale trade of Binghamton has long been one of its most 
important features and it has kept pace with the general growth and 
prosperity of "the city. All goods are procured direct from manufactur- 
ers, both at home and abroad, and not only do our merchants compete 
successfully with neighboring cities, but they have held the territory 
against the encroachments of all. In a general way it may be said of 
the wholesale and jobbing trade of the city thatit occupies all the terri- 
tory to which it is rightfully entitled, and, in addition to this, it has 
very considerably extended into the territory of other cities, notably 
Syracuse and Elmira. The trade now is in the most satisfactory condi- 
tion, and while it has had a steady growth for many years, the increase 
in the past five years has been particularly gratifying. In groceries 
the great wholesale houses of S. Mills Ely & Co.. Bean & Co., McKin- 
ney, Everts & Co., and H. W. Chubbuck & Co. transact a business that 
is not exceeded by any similar houses in the State, outside, possibly, of 
the metropolis. The boot and shoe trade is well represented by Stone & 
Germond and Goff" & Macomber, and Babcock & Stowell and Geo. M. 
Harris are extensive jobbers of hardware as well as retailers. Lloyd & 
Gardiner are the only strictly wholesale confectioners in the city. The 
Whitney-Noyes Seed Co. and Conklin & Mersereau each do a very 
heavy jobbing trade in grass seeds, the John Ray Clarke Co. in hats, 
Casper & Crittenden in crockery. North & Shaw in provisions, and 



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White & Co. and John J. Moses in wines and liquors, and others in 
various lines are each transacting large and annually increasing opera- 
tions. The Empire Grain and Elevator Co. handle grain in large 
quantities and the Berwind-White Coal Mining Co. through their 
branch office in this city transact a very extensive business in bitumin- 
ous coals. Arguing from the success of the jobbing enterprises already 
located here, an equally profitable field is open for the establishment of 
wholesale dry goods, notions and millinery houses as well as for other 
specialties. 

In the retail department of commerce no other city in the State is 
better supplied with facilities for obtaining goods of all kinds at reason- 
able prices, and the opportunities for engaging in any kind of retail 
enterprise here are of the most favorable nature. 




PHELPS BANK BUILDING. 



Susquehanna Valley Bank. 

The Susquehanna Valley Bank is one of the oldest and best known 
banks in the Southern Tier. It was organized in IS55. with a capital of 
$100,000, to which has since been added a surplus fund of $40,000. The 
bank is located in the massive stone structure known as the Phelps 
Bank Building, an illustration of which is shown above, and the 
banking rooms are spacious and convenient, affording ample accommo- 



22 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

da.tions for the public and possessing every modern convenience for 
facilitating the business in hand. A general banking business is tran- 
sacted, including the receiving of deposits, the discounting of approved 
commercial paper, the making of collections and issuance of exchange. 
From its inception this bank has enjoyed the confidence of the public, 
and under its present wise and conservative management it has done 
and is doing a large and safe business, all its operations being marked 
by prudence, caution and honorable business methods, and it is gener- 
ally recognized as one of those solid and carefully conducted institutions 
which reflect credit alike upon its officers and the community in which 
its influence is felt. Prompt, courteous and efficient in all their deal- 
ings with the public, its officers are naturally popular and fully uphold 
the credit and dignity of the bank. The officers are Messrs. J . W. 
Manier, President; J. B. Weed, Vice-president, and Arthur Griffin, 
Cashier. The Board of Directors is as follows: James B. Weed, George 
A. Kent, S.J. Hirschmann, Charles M. Stone, Norman A. Phelps, Ar- 
thur Griffin, Hon. William B. Edwards, Gilman L. Sessions, Asa R. 
Tweedy, William G. Phelps, Alonzo C. Matthews, James M. Stone and 
James W. Manier. Mr. Manier has been connected with the bank as 
cashier and president since 1865, and Mr. Griffin, the cashier, has also 
spent the best years of his life in the service of the bank. 

First National Bank. 

The First National Bank, which is one of the oldest and most reliable 
institutions of the kind in the country, was organized December 19, 1863, 
and for twenty-eight years has been a prominent factor in the industrial 
development of Binghamton, and its career has been one of the most 
creditable character, alike conducive to the financial welfare of its stock- 
holders, depositors and customers. Its capital stock is -^SOO.OOO, backed 
up by a surplus fund of upwards of $100,000, and while its management 
has always been characterized by a proper conservatism, yet it has been 
progressive in all matters that gav-e promise of growth and permanence 
to the industrial advancement of Binghamton. The executive officers 
of the bank are Messrs. F. T. Newell, President: Harper Dusenbury, 
Vice-president; and John Manier, Cashier, who may well be numbered 
among the foremost financiers of Binghamton. A general banking 
business in all its usual forms is transacted, including the receipt of de- 
posits, granting loans and discounts, and making collections at all avail- 
able points. It is a bank of business in every sense of the word and 
indulges in no shaky speculation or uncertain investments. Its record 
is one of which its managers have every reason to feel proud, and it has 
done much to enhance the welfare and advancement of this city by its 
judicious fostering of all reliable industrial endeavors. 

Binginannton Savings Bank. 

The Binghamton Savings Bank was chartered April 18. 1867, and 
its business is confined exclusively to receiving and caring for savings 
deposits and funds deposited in trust, and the deposits now amount to 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 23 



$1,330,000. Sums as small as one dollar are received on deposit, and 
semi-annual dividends at the rate of four per cent per annum are paid 
upon all deposits which have remained in the bank for a period not less 
than three months next preceding the quarter day. To mechanics, la- 
boring men, women and children, as well as to all persons, the facilities 
afforded by this bank for securing a bank account by means of smaller 
or larger savings cannot be overestimated. The high character and 
sound financial standing of the officers and trustees of the bank are suf- 
ficient guarantees that no loss can possibly reach depositors, and as all 
investments of the resources of the bank are rigidly prescribed by law 
to be made only in securities which cannot depreciate in value, a further 
insurance is secured. The officers of the bank are Messrs. Harper Du- 
senbury, President; W. H. Wilkinson and W. B. Edwards, Vice-presi- 
dents; Harris G. Rodgers, Treasurer; Charles M. Stone, Secretary and 
Charles W. Gennet, Teller. The Binghamton Savings Bank has always 
been conducted upon a sound and conservative policy which has always 
proved advantageous and satisfactory to depositors, and the institution 
is one in which this community has every reason to take just pride. 

The other banks are the City National, the National Broome County, 
the Merchants and the Chenango Valley Savings Bank. 

Transportation. 

Railroads are the great arteries through which the commerce of the 
country seeks the markets of the world. A number of roads leading to 
or from any central point gives to that point a superiority over all 
others in transportation facilities and an equalization of rates which 
naturally draws and concentrates manufacturing, commercial and other 
interests. Binghamton is nearly equi-distant from the cities of New 
York, Philadelphia and Buffalo. The distance to New York is 207 miles; 
Philadelphia, 220 miles; Boston, 340 miles; Buffalo, 208 miles; Albany, 
142 miles; Syracuse, 80 miles; Oswego, IIH miles; Utica, 100 miles; 
Rochester, 180 miles; Scranton, 60 miles. 

The various lines centering here are, the New York, Lake Erie & 
Western, a trunk line from the metropolis to the great West; the Dela- 
w^are, Lackawanna & Western, a second line from New York to Buf- 
falo, and which also operates lines from Binghamton to Utica, and 
from Binghamton through Syracuse to Oswego; and the Delaware & 
Hudson railroad, the most important carrier of summer travel in the 
country, and in connection with the Erie, in Binghamton, the Troy & 
Boston and Fitchburg in Troy, and the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel & West- 
ern at Mechanicville, the D. & H. gives a through line from the West 
to Boston. 

The number of passenger trains arriving at Binghamton every 
twenty-four hours, and departing therefrom, on the different railroads, 
aggregates 109. 

Real Estate. 

The demand for real estate during the past year has, in Binghamton 
at least, been a sure indication of the faith placed in its future by the 



24 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

many thousands who have made investments. Real estate has not in a 
single noticeable instance been offered for less than was paid for it. It 
has invariably been disposed of at a figure warranted by the growth 
and prosperity of the city. Although the price of property has ad- 
vanced, there are few who believe that it is at present undervalued. 
There has been no '"boom" to excite wild-cat speculation on the part of 
the investor, but the demand and increase in value has emanated from 
legitimate sources, founded on the belief that the city offers great in- 
ducements, both as a manufacturing and trade center and as a beauti- 
fully situated residential city. Many new and handsome business 
blocks and attractive apartment houses and flats, built in the prevailing 
architectural styles of the day, have been erected within a few years, 
and more are now in progress. 

The Moeller Estate- 
One of the most desirable pieces of property in Binghamton, now 
on the market, is the well-known Moeller estate, which contains ninety 
acres within the city limits, and which is beautifully situated on high 
ground in the eastern section of the city, and within ten minutes' drive 
of the Court House. This property was formerly the summer home of 
the late Captain B. J. Moeller. U. S. N., and was selected by the citi- 
zens' committee of Binghamton as the site for the State Masonic Home, 
had this institution been located here. It is on the direct line of the 
Robinson street electric railway and is but one block distant from the 
Court Street & East End street railway. The property includes a 
handsome residence located in a beautiful grove, and there are a num- 
ber of small groves of oak. hickory and maple trees, scattered about 
the property. No more eligible piece of property could be desired than 
this, and it would prove a bonanza indeed for some syndicate to pur- 
chase, plat out and sell in building lots, while the individual purchasers- 
would secure the most desirable home sites in Binghamton. It has now 
for the first time been placed upon the public market, and if not sold in 
whole, will be cut up into acreage plots and be disposed of the coming 
season. Mr. Alex. E. Andrews of 56 Court street has control of the 
sale of this valuable property, two photographic views of which accom- 
pany this article. 

The Coal Supply. 

Among the conditions which have for many years united in pro- 
moting the growth of the city is the cheapness of fuel for domestic use» 
and the supply of our manufacturing industries. No towns in the State, 
not excepting those nearest the coal deposits, have been able to obtain 
their fuel at rates as low as have been charged to our consumers. The 
difference during the last twenty years has ranged from ten to thirty 
per cent, as a comparison of sales in the various towns will show. As 
the cost of living and the cost of production are largely contingent on 
the price of fuel, the fact here stated is one that must be taken inta 



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account in estimating the advantages of any town as a place of resi- 
dence, or as a location for manufacturing purposes. The extensive 
business conducted by the large coal dealers in Binghamton, when 
reduced to figures, presents the most astonishing proportions. The 
direct railroad communications with the coal fields of Pennsylvania, 
and the competition existing here between the rival corporations which 
are extensive miners and shippers of this valuable product, have re- 
sulted in fixing the delivery pr^ce of coal in Binghamton at lower figures 
than are enjoyed by any other important manufacturing center in the 
State. 

Street Railroads. 

Few cities of its size are better accommodated with street railroads 
than Binghamton. Eight different lines and branches gridiron the 
various parts of the city and afford quick and cheap transportation to 
its citizens. Electricity is the motive power applied on several of the 
lines, and the system is being rapidly extended. 

Financial. 

Binghamton's banking business is perhaps the strongest support of 
the manufacturing and mercantile interests of the city, and working in 
alliance with these interests in all their legitimate phases, each appre- 
ciably influences and partakes of the tone and methods of the others. 
Hence, the banks of the city, like her business enterprises, are noted 
for their sound, energetic, yet conservative management, command the 
entire confidence of business men and capitalists and hold a high rank 
among the financial institutions of the State. There are three national 
banks, two State banks, one trust company, two savings banks, one safe 
deposit company and two private banking houses. 

Churches. 

The churches of Binghamton are widely distributed over the city, 
and are confined to no section. The ecclesiastical edifices are mostly 
of substantial and enduring proportions and the condition of their 
financial affairs attests the most skillful and conservative direction. 
The number of church societies holding regular services either in their 
own edifices 'or other suitable places is twenty-six, of which nine are 
Methodist, four Presbyterian, three Episcopal, two each Baptist, Con- 
gregational, Catliolic and Lutheran, and one each Christian and Uni- 
versalist. 

Amusements. 

Binghamton being so readily accessible to the metropolis enjoys 
the luxury of first-class theatrical entertainments. Many of the very 
best of metropolitan actors and companies visit this cit}^ and are always 
sure of a generous support. A magnificent new opera house is now be- 
ing erected, which will be ready for occupancy about August 1, 1893. 



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Ross Park. 

The public park known as Ross Park was donated to the city in 
August, 1875, by Erastus Ross. It contains an area of 90 acres, largely 
covered with trees, and is a pleasant and healthful resort for picnic 
parties and people of the city generally. It is connected with the city 
by electric cars, and is under the jurisdiction of the city government. 
Spirituous liquors, ale and strong beer are prohibited from being sold in 
the park and a police force is kept on guard to preserve order. 

Societies. 

Binghamton has numerous organizations for fraternal, beneficial 
and helpful purposes, all of which are in a flourishing condition and 
are accomplishing the objects of their existence. 

Tine Press. 

Four daily newspapers are published in Binghamton, one morning 
and three evening. Each daily has a weekly. There are two weeklies 
besides those published from the offices of the dailies, also one temper- 
ance publication. 

The Court House. 

The Broome County Court House stands on a beautiful knoll and 
esplanade fronting Court street, opposite Chenango. ISTear by is a 
pagoda, from which delightful open-air concerts are given during the 
summer evenings. The building is massive and substantial, and being 
sufficiently elevated above the surrounding streets, it invites attention. 
A magnificent soldiers' and sailors' monument attests the fact that the 
city is not unmindful of her fallen heroes ; it stands in the public square 
fronting the Court House and is an ornament to the city. 

Binghamton Industrial Exposition. 

Through the enterprise of a few of the citizens an annual Indus- 
trial Exposition was organized last fall and the first exhibition, lasting 
five days, was held and met with a remarkable success. The grounds 
are situated on the bank of the Chenango river and contain a race 
track and numerous buildings, and are within five minutes' walk of the 
centre of the city. The important success of the first exhibition has so 
encouraged the management that next year it is proposed to hold a ten- 
days' exhibition, which it is confidently predicted will exceed any simi- 
lar exhibition in the State both in numbers of exhibitors and attend- 
ance. 

Ackerman Building. 

The latest, as well as one of the most elegant, office buildings 
erected in Binghamton is the Ackerman building, which has just been 
completed and is ready for occupancy. The building, which is owned 



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and was erected by Mr. Cornelius H. Ackerman, occupies the plot of 
ground bounded by State, and Henry and Commercial avenue, thus 
giving it a frontage on three streets, affording an abundance of light, 
and in fact, every room in the building has the advantage of plenty of 
windows. The building is six stories high and is constructed of red 
sandstone for tlie first story, the remaining stories being brick. It is 
provided with steam heat and electric lights and an Otis fast elevator. 
Wide halls and stairways have also been provided, as well as ladies' 
and gentlemen's toilet rooms on each floor, and every modern conven- 




ACKERMAN BUILDING. 



ience demanded by modern business methods has been incorporated in 
the construction. As an architectural ornament to the central business 
portion of the city, the budding is an important feature and has few 
rivals for beauty of appearance, solidity and graceful design. The in- 
terior has been especially laid out for office purposes, singly and en 
suite, and already a number of well-known and enterprising business 
men have secured offices in the building, while other equally desirable 
rooms are still at the disposal of tenants. The ground floor is a spe- 
cially commodious and attractive room, and will prove a fitting home 
for one or two banks, for which it has been specially designed. The 
second, third and fourth floors contain ten offices on each floor and each 
room has two or more large windows fronting on one of the three 
streets. The fifth floor has been laid out for a gentlemen's club room, 
with handsome parlor a'nd reading room, billiard room and grill room 



30 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



and a central corridor into which all rooms open. The sixth floor has 
been arranged for a lodge room, the main hall being supplemented by 
two large ante-rooms. A janitor will be in constant attendance on the 
building, and it will be maintained in a manner that will be pleasing to 
the tenants and creditable to its projector. Mr. Ackerman is deserving 
of commendation for his enterprise in adding to the business conven- 
iences of the city by the erection of so superb a structure, which while 
being a valuable acquisition to the architectural beauty of the city is 
destined to prove a judicious investment of capital. We present here- 
with an illustration of the Ackerman building. 

Prospects for the Future. 

The location of Binghamton is one which renders it impossible for 
any combination of circumstances to arrest its growth, either as a 
place of business or residence. Lying as it does at about equal dis- 
tances from New York, Philadelphia, Rochester, Buffalo, Albany and 
Troy, and occupying the centre of which these cities are on the circum- 
ference, it is sure to become an important feeder for these overcrowded 
localities. The past of Binghamton having furnished a record of con- 
tinuous and sustained growth it is a fair presumption that the future 
will present results of proportionate advance or even accelerated ex- 
pansion. This is an age of speed, and the industries of the close of the 
Nineteenth Century are surrounding themselves with forces and agencies 
as amazing in their results as those of steam and electricity. Already 
the developments of electrical science have given us a revolution in 
methods of obtaining motive power which bids fair to supplant all 
others. In the utilization of all the resources which nature has fur- 
nished or science unveiled, there is every reason to believe that Bing- 
hamton will be fully abreast with the most progressive cities. It has 
no lack of men with business sagacity equal to the improvement of 
every opportunity and it is safe to predict that the historian of the in- 
dustries of the future will be able to point back to those of to-/lay as 
the auspicious beginnings of a greater and brighter destiny. 

The present of Binghamton is magnificent and full of promise. It 
is the handsomest, richest, busiest, most public spirited and most pro- 
gressive city and community of equal extent and numbers between the 
two great oceans. Its natural advantages were never better supple- 
mented by its acquired resources for the development of its progress 
than they are to-day, and the opportunities to obtain homes, occupa- 
tion, happiness and prosperity lie waiting open for all. Binghamton is 
the home of intellectual vigor and refinement, wealth, manufactures 
and commerce, with a past full of interest, a present full of earnestness 
and a future full of brightness. Binghamton presents a thousand at- 
tractions to the student, the patriot, the statesman, the wage earner and 
greatest of all to that most practical of all philanthropists, the enter- 



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prising capitalist seeking safe investments in real estate or the estab- 
lishment of productive industries. The time is not far distant when 




GEORGE A. KENT'S BLOCK, STATE STREET. 



Binghamton's 38.000 enterprising inhabitants will have become doubled 
and when of the United States it shall be, what it now is of the great 
Empire State, its most attractive city. 



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THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 




The City of Biiwliamtoii 



Its Leading Industries and Principal Mercantile Establishments, 
with Sketches of their Foundation, History and Prog- 
ress, and Notes on the Character and 
Extent of their Operations. 



DR. KILMER & CO., 

Manufacturers of Proprietary Medicines. 

Binghamton has every reason to be proud of being' the home and 
headquarters of the enterprising firm of Dr. Kihner & Co., manufac- 
turing chemists, where tlie compounding of Swamp Root and other 
herbal remedies is carried on. The prominent success that has attended 
the sale of these remedies is almost unparalleled in the history of the 
l)roprietary medicine business. Scarcely ten years have gone by since 
the remedies were first offered to the general public and their first intro- 
duction covered but a few minor counties of the State, yet to-day they 
are sold in enormous and annually increasing quantities in all parts of 
the United States, throughout South America and the West Indies, 
branch houses having been already established at Rio De Janeiro, 
Brazil and Kingston, Jamaica, and another is in contemplation in Can- 
ada. An enterprise of so important a character as this to have grown up 
in so short a time must have possessed great inherent merits from its 
inception, and these merits are to be found, first in the unfailing medi- 
cinal properties of the remedies themselves ; second, in its able and en- 
ergetic management. Dr. Kilmer, the discoverer, has for many years 
been a practicing physician in this city ; he is a regular accredited 
graduate of two high class colleges. His great success in private prac- 
tice, which he still continues with annually increasing call upon his 
services, led him to desire a larger field for his various specifics than 
was possible by simply prescribing them to his patients. Therefore in 
1S81 he associated with him as an equal partner, his brother, Mr. J. M. 
Kilmer, who for IS years previous had been engaged in the wholesale 
dry goods business in New York city. From a modest beginning has 
grown up the present enormous business, which under the able man- 
agement of Mr. J. M. Kilmer, leaves Dr. Kilmer and his assistant phy- 
sicians free to continue the practice of the profession, and his patients, 
both in person and by letter, are now numbered by thousands and come 
from every part of the United States. In fact, to obtain a personal con- 
sultation with the Doctor, it has l)ecome necessary to make an appoint- 
ment in advance. The present facilities of the firm for compounding 
their remedies are large and important. The plant covers about one- 
quarter of a city square, and consists of a four-story dispensary, adjoin- 



34 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

ing which is the laboratory, a five-story brick building-, and the firm 
has m contemplation the erection of another large building, which will 
then give them the largest manufacturing plant of its kind in the United 
States. On the ground floor occupying- Nos. 37-1: and 37G Chenango 
and 3. 4 and (i Virgil streets are located the main business, advertising 
and private offices of the concern. They are very elaborately, but sub- 
stantially fitted up in antique oak furnishings, manufactured from spe- 
cial designs. Connecting with private entrance from Virgil street are 
the private offices, consulting rooms and waiting parlors used by Dr. 
Kilmer in his practice. They are complete and handsomely equipped 
with all the latest scientific apparatus and instruments known to the 
profession. The firm do all their own printing in a special department 
located at Nos. 370 and 372 Chenango street, running the entire length 
of the building. The equipment of this office is most complete and com- 
prises a 50-horse power engine, a number of high speed cylinder presses, 
turning out a large number of books per hour, smaller job presses, etc., 
etc. They print daily an enormous amount of paper, one press alone 
having a per dieiii capacity of 170,000 sheets printed on both sides in 
two colors. Some idea of the amount of paper used can be gleaned from 
the fact that from twelve to fourteen million large sixteen-page pamph- 
lets or books are issued every year. Here are printed the labels, wrap- 
pers, pamphlets, etc., found accompanying each and every package of 
medicine. The '' Invalid's Guide to Health," their leading publication, 
unlike all other pamphlets issued by manufacturers of medicines that 
have come under the notice of the writer, contains no funny stories, 
receipts or jokes, but is edited and compiled in all seriousness for the 
use and benefit of the temporary sick, or the chronic sufferer. The lab- 
ratory proper occupies the entire fifth floor, and is replete with all equip- 
ments and scientific apparatus for quickly and accurately compounding 
the preparations. In the bottling department, which is immediately 
under, the writer's particular attention was called to the bottling ma- 
chine, the firm's own invention, which fills twenty-six hundred bottles 
per hour. The concern have lately added a Novelty Department, where 
are manufactured by a secret process all the large board signs, banners, 
transparencies and other novelties printed on wood. In fine, in their 
plant Dr. Kilmer & Co. make all their wares, with the exception of the 
corks and bottles, used in the production of their remedies, and through- 
out the entire building the point that impressed the writer most forcibly 
was its wonderful completeness in every detail, and to undertake to 
describe the special features in each department would necessitate com- 
piling a volume. It is a noticeable fact that Dr. Kilmer & Co. "s Remedies 
have acquired their wide popularity almost wholly by means of their 
growing reputation and merit. The drug sale fully expresses the fact 
that the Kilmer goods are the most popular with the people and that 
Swamp Root has the largest sale of any similar preparation on the 
market. The once popular summer resort known as Hiawatha Island 
was purchased by the firm three years ago. and after entirely renovat- 
ing the buildings and adding new ones, they converted it into a private 
summer home. The property consists of an island of 137 acres, situated 
in the Susquehanna River, comprising a magnificent park, shady drives 
and walks and a large stock farm. It is but 18 miles f rom Binghamton 
and is accessible by the Erie and D.. L. & W. R. R., and by ferry from 
the station. Altogether it is a very charming spot, affording beautiful 
views of both mountain and water scenery. The firm of Dr. Kilmer & 
Co. consists of B. A. Kilmer, M. D., and J. M. Kilmer, who are each 
one-half owners of the plant, business and real estate held and occupied 
by the firm. 



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O. W. SEARS, 

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Coal, 19 Clinton St. 

It is to the cheapness and quality of coal that the manufacturinj^ 
interests of a community are largely indebted for their advance and 
prosperity, and no concern in this sect i in has accomplished more, as 
regards its facilities for furnishing a high grade of coal, than has that 
of Mr. O. W. Sears, who instituted his enterprise here about ten years 
ago, and has since developed a large and growing trade with manufac- 
turers and for domestic purposes. The facilities of the house embrace 
an extensive yard and series of coal pockets, having a capacity for the 
storage of 1,000 tons of coal. The yards adjoin the Erie R. R. and 
cars are run into the coal pockets, where they are unloaded without 
handling. About fifteen thousand tons are handled annually, and only 
the best grades of anthracite and bituminous coals are dealt in, which 
are furnished to the trade and consumers at lowest market prices. 
Seven assistants are employed in the conduct of the business and all 
orders either by mail or telephone are promptly filled. Mr. Sears is also 
a member of the firm of Bartlett & Sears, strictly wholesale coal dealers 
of Buffalo, N. Y. His relations with producers and first hands are of a 
most intimate nature, and every advantage accruing to the most pro- 
gressive houses in the trade are placed at the disposal of patrons. 



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C. B. SMITH, JR. & CO., 

Manufacturers of Fine Cigars, 30 1 to 305 Water St. 

== , _ The cigar manufacturing in- 

dustry of Binghamton has long 
been its most important product- 
ive feature and Binghamton ci- 
gars rank high among the very 
best made in the country. Among 
the leading establishments which 
are contributing largely to this 
importance and whose efforts are 
constantly directed towards fully 
maintaining the reputation and 
character of their output is the 
house of Messrs. C. B. Smith, Jr., 
& Co., which was instituted 
about twelve years ago. and has 
since acquired a reputation that 
fully entitles it to a prominent 
position among the cigar factor- 
ies of the Empire State. The 
premises occupied for the business are comprised in a new four-story 
and basement brick building, which is eqviipped with improved ma- 
chinery operated by steam power and furnishes exuployment to 150 
skilled workmen. The products of the house embrace a large variety 
of cigars, from medium to the highest grades, a specialty being made 
of fine Havana cigars. All their goods are sold under their own regis- 
tered brands, of which they have about forty, all of which have gath- 
ered high favor with the trade. Among the leading brands we note: 
"Del Monte," "Flor de Palmeta." "King William,"' "Los Gates" and 
"Santa Garcia," which are in wide demand by the trade and consumers 
wherever introduced. The trade of the house extends throughout the 
United States and is with jobbers only, the annual output reaching 
4,000,000. The individual members of the firm, Messrs. C. B. Smith, Jr., 




36 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

and Charles H. Hall, are both experienced manufacturers and expert 
judges of leaf tobacco, and possessing, as they do, unsurpassed facili- 
ties for economical production, they are making a line of tine and me- 
dium cigars which is in every respect well worthy the attention of the 
trade. Tliey are honorable competitors for legitimate business, and en- 
terprising and progressive manufacturers. 



A. CORBIN, SON &CO., 

Wholesale and Retail Druggists, 38 Court St. 

This house, which is the only one in the city doing a considerable 
wholesale trade in drugs, was instituted in 1881 by Messrs, A, Corbin & 
Son. the present firm having been organized in 1886. The business 
premises are embraced in a three-story and basement building, which 
is supplied with every convenience for the advantageous display of the 
stock and the prompt fulfilment of orders. The first floor is devoted to 
the retail salesrooms and office in front, and the wholesale operations 
in the rear, a prescription department being also provided for. and the 
remaining floors and basement are used for storing the surplus stock, 
which embraces large and ct)mplete lines of pure drugs and chemicals, 
dyes, paints and oils, whole and ground spices, perfumes, proprietary 
medicines, fancy goods, etc. The stock also includes herbs, roots, 
barks, etc.. and druggists' glassware and sundries, and in fact every- 
thing required by the trade and public in the way of drugs, medicines 
and pharmaceutical preparations. All goods are procured direct from 
the most eminent manufacturers and importers, and in each depart- 
ment the stock will be found ample, varied and of the highest quality. 
Fine wines and liquors for medicinal use are carried, and indeed everj- 
thing for the complete equipment of a flrst-class drug establishment. 
The trade of the house extends throughout Southern New York and 
Northern Pennsylvania along the lines of railroad centering at Bing- 
hamton. this territory being frequently covered by a travelling sales- 
man. The members of the firm are Messrs. A. Corbin, F. G. Corbin 
and Samuel Higgins. gentlemen thoroughly familiar with all depart- 
ments of their business, and who have always conducted it on a liberal 
and enterprising basis. 



J. B. TALBOT & CO., 

Hides, Pelts and Skins, 1 73 Water St. 

The original inception of this business took place in ISG-t. wdien it 
was founded by Livermore & Co., the present firm having been organ- 
ized in 1881. Tlie premises occupied for the transaction of the business 
are commodious and alford ample storage facilities, and are the head- 
quarters for the transaction of a large and growing trade in the pur- 
chase and shipment of hides, pelts, skins, furs, wool, tallow, etc. These 
staples are pui-chased in any quantity from dealers, collectors, or pro- 
ducers, and after being graded are shipped to the trade in the large 
cities of the East chiefly. The firm solicits consignments of anything 
in their line for which the highest market cash prices will be paid upon 
i-eceipt. The members of the firm are Messrs. J. B. and Page W. Tal- 
bot, fwid Lester W. Potter, all gentlemen of enterprising and energetic 
methods and closely identified with the growth of this city. Their 
house occupies an eminent and esteemed |)osition in the trade, and its 
age. solidity and honorable record render it one of the most advantag- 
eous with which to form relations that are sure to be pleasant and 
profitable. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 37 

WILKINSON, SON & CO. 

Manufacturers of Leather, Foot of Carroll St. 

The enterprise of Messrs. Wilkinson. Son & Co. was originally in- 
stituted many years ago by Lewis Abbott. In 1870 the business came 
into the possession of Messrs. Wilkinson Bros., and in 1S84 they were 
succeeded by the present firm. The plant is located on the bank of Sus- 
quehanna river, from which power is obtained, an auxiliary engine of 
40-horse power being occasionally used. The tanning and currying- 
shops embrace a series of suitable buildings, which are fully equipped 
with all the latest improved machinery known to the trade, and large 
yards are also utilized for storing bark. Fifty-five skilled workmen 
and others are given employment in the several departments of the 
business and about three hundred hides are Handled each week, all 
being of home production. The firm manufactures chiefly upper leather 
which is known to the trade under the names of Imitation Goat, Grain, 
Imitation Kangaroo from Calfskins and Cowhides, and London Seal, 
Boot Grain, also flexible insole, both grain and splits. The products are 
taken by the boot and shoe manufacturing trade throughout the coun- 
try, generally, and their goods have a high reputation in the market 
for superior quality. Their imitation Kangaroo under their trademark 
of "American Kangaroo."" has a wide popularity with the manufactur- 
ers and it possesses all the qualities of the genuine both as regards fine 
finish and durability, while it is furnished at a much less price. While 
the firm uses large quantities of bark in the processes of tanning, in the 
manufacture of their London Seal leather they use no bark at all, but 
reach the end- b}^ a new and improved process, which results in a per- 
fect leather that is in great and growing demand with the trade. The 
members of the firm are Messrs. W. H. Wilkinson, Arthur R. Wilkin- 
son and Charles Thorne, all well known and prominent citizens of 
Binghamton. Mr, W. H. Wilkinson is also president of the Wilkinson 
Manufacturing Co., of this city. Vice President of the Binghamton Sav- 
ings Bank, a member of the Board of Trade, and otherwise prominent 
in the best interests of the city. 



OSTROM, BARNES & CO., 

Cigar Manufacturers, 1 79 Water St. 

This house was established in 1886 and has since built up a trade 
extending throughout New York and Pennsylvania requiring the ser- 
vices of two travelling salesmen, sales being made to both jobbers and 
retailers, the average output of the factory being 2,000,000 cigars annu- 
ally. The premises of the firm are comprised in a four-story brick 
building :25xT5 feet in dimensions, of which the three uppei- floors are 
utilized for manufacturing purposes. Fifty skilled cigar-makers are 
given employment and the products are strictly hand-made cigars, no 
machinery being employed, as is the case with many other manufac- 
turies. The goods of the firm are all put upon the market under their 
own brands, among the chief of which are: "Walt Whitman,"' "Post 
E," "Trophy," "Lavender," and "Something Good." These are all 
standard goods, made from carefully selected and thoroughly seasoned 
stock, by skilled workmen, and are confidently recommended to smok- 
ers as being unsurpassed for fine flavor, delicate aroma and even com- 
bustion. The active management of the business devolves upon Messrs. 
E. D. Ostrom and J. T. Barnes, who are both experienced judges of leaf 
tobacco and expert manufacturers, and all the operations of their fac- 
tory are conducted under their personal supervision. 



38 



THK CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



REYNOLDS, ROGERS & CO. 

Manufacturers of Cigars, 1 9 to 25 N. Depot Street. 

One of the first among the great en- 
terprises devoted to this branch of 
productive activity stands the repre- 
sentative establishment of Messrs. 
Reynolds, Rogers & Co. This house 
was founded in 1884, and is to-day a 
monument to the enterprise, energy 
and progressive ideas of its projectors. 
The factory of the firm is comprised 
in a large four-story and basement 
brick building, having a floorage area 
of 35,000 square feet. It is equipped 
with a 60-horse power boiler and a 
35-horse power engine and all the latest 
improved special machinery known 
to the trade, employment being given 
to from four to five hundred operatives. 
The factory is well lighted, heated by 
steam, and supplied with all modern 
facilities for the orderly and system- 
atic conduct of the business, and the 
" " annual output of cigars ranges from 

fifteen to twenty millions, an idea of which enormous quantity may 
be obtained, when it is said that if these cigars were all placed in a line 
end to end they would cover a distance equal to that from New York to 
Chicago. The products of the house embrace all kinds of fine and me- 
dium grade domestic cigars, none of the cheapest grades being produced. 
They are supplied extensively to the jobbing trade and are sold through- 
out the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. All the goods 
are made and packed under the firm's own copyrighted brands of which 
they have a large number, among the most popular of which we note: 
^Trideof Egvpt." --Sheriffs" Sale." "Josh Billings,'" "Blue Point," -'Ben- 
gal,"" --Moxie?" "Wild Waves,"" --Malto," --Seals of the North,"' "Seals 
of the South,"" "Seals of the East"" and '-Seals of the West."" the latter 
four being the self-same goods packed under the change in name for the 
four principal sections of the country named. The individual members 
of the firm are Messrs. F. B. Reynolds, G. T. Rogers, and F. E. Lay, 
each of whom takes an active interest in the management of the 
business, and each is an expert in his special department. No other 
house is better equipped in every respect to offer marked inducements 
to the trade, and it is no small tribute to the abilities and business tal- 
ents of the management to say that they have not only maintained, 
but constantly increased, the operations of their industry, until now 
this house stands among the first of the cigar trade of Binghamton. 




BINGHAMTON GLASSWORKS, 

Manufacturers of Green Glassware, McLean Street and Railroad. 

The manufacture of glass ware is one of the oddest of industries 
and one of the few in which the methods of modern manufacturers are 
practically the same as those of its earlier followers. Binghamton is 
the seat of an important manufactory of glass ware which is known as 
the Binghamton Glass Works and of which' Mr. William Burrows is the 
sole proprietor. These works were erected about fourteen years ago, 
and are located in the western section of the city, adjoining the two 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 39 

main trunk lines of railroad, with which they are connected by side 
tracks, thus affording every facility for the receipt of raw materials 
and the sliipment of the finished products without rehandling. The 
plant covers about two acres upon which are erected two furnaces, each 
having a capacity of five tons daily. Besides these are other minor 
buildings, warehouses, etc., and the whole is equipped with all the 
latest improved tools and appliances known to the trade, including a 
40-horse power steam engine. The products are what are known to the 
trade as green glassware and consist of vials, bottles and flasks of all 
sizes and shapes, chiefly manufactured to order for use by manufac- 
turers and bottlers of proprietary articles medicines, condiments, bev- 
erages, etc. and includes also bottles for all commercial purposes. The 
number of bottles produced so varies according to the sizes made that 
the total produced daily is not attainable. Sufficient to say that when 
both furnaces are in operation about ten tons of glassware are produced 
daily and as the production is almost wholly the result of hand-labor a 
force of no less than 300 men and boys are given employment. As these 
are largely highly skilled workmen, it is evident that the operation of 
these works is an important feature of the industrial thrift of this city. 
The products of the house are taken by the trade throughout the 
United States generally east of the Mississippi and their high character 
is well understood and appreciated by the trade. Mr. Burrows is a 
native of England where he learned the business and is a practical 
glassware manufacturer. He also conducts another similar enterprise 
at Stroudsburg, Penn., where he makes his headquarters. With un- 
rivalled conveniences for shipping, an established excellence of product 
and a liberal and fair dealing business policy it is but just to say that as 
€onducing to the advancement of the material prosperity of this city by 
the employment of many skilled workmen, the Binghamton Glass 
Works is performing a beneficent work while in the pursuit of legiti- 
mate profits and may be regarded as a representative concern fully 
worth}' the pronounced success it has attained. 



C. L. SAUNDERS & SON, 

Dealers in Armour's Chicago Dressed Beef, Prospect Ave and R. R. 

This firm are handlers of the products of the world-renowned pack- 
ing house of Armour & Co. of Chicago. This great firm slaughter 
immense quantities of cattle daily in Chicago, and ship the dressed beef 
in refrigerator cars to all points in the East, where it arrives fresh and 
sweet as the day it was killed, with no perceptible loss in weight, and 
it can therefore be sold to the consumers at much less prices than was 
possible under the old system of transporting live cattle long distances 
and slaughtering them while in a feverish condition from the effects of 
such transportation. The facilities of the firm consist of a two-story 
refrigerator building which adjoins the railroad system of the city and 
admits of the unloading of the cars direct into the building. The ca- 
pacity of the refrigerator is about thirty-five carcasses and other prod- 
ucts dealt in. which embrace dressed mutton and lambs, pork, sausage, 
smoked meats, hams. lard. etc. The firm handle about two car-loads 
of dressed beef weekly, and supply a trade that besides embracing the 
city also extends throughout a large section of Central and Southern 
New York and Northern Pennsylvania, and which is annually increas- 
ing in volume. The members of the firm are Messrs. C. L. Saunders 
and W. L. Saunders, both experienced men in the business and pro- 
gressive and enterprising merchants. 



40 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 




S. MILLS ELY & Co., 

Wholesale Grocers, N. Depot St. and Prospect Ave. 

In connection with the wholesale 
grocery trade of Binghamton. a few 
brief facts with relation to the history 
and business of the house of Messrs. 
S. Mills Ely & Co., the oldest whole- 
sale grocery establishment in the city, 
are replete with interest. Founded in 
1843 by Messrs. McKinney & Co., as 
dealers in flour and provisions, and 
succeeded in 1871 by Mr. S. Mills Ely, 
who had been a member of the firm 
since 1803, this house has been contin- 
uously conducted for nearly half a 
century, with annually increasing 
trade, influence and reputation. In 
1S72 the present extensive salesrooms 
and warehouse of the firm were erect- 
ed and in 1875 Mr. Edward F. Leighton 
became associated with Mr. Ely under 
the present firm title. The headquarters of the firm are embraced in a 
substantial four-story brick structure 70xl::20 feet in dimensions, located 
as above indicated, besides which they utilize a large two-story brick 
warehouse on State street, which combines a cold storage warehouse, a 
mincemeat factory and a stable, and they also have a two-story ware- 
house on Prospect avenue, where heavy groceries are stored, the whole 
affording ample accommodations for a large and varied stock, which 
has no equal in extent between New York and Buffalo, and embraces 
staple and fancy groceries, teas, coffees, spices, grocers' sundries, flour, 
provisions, smoked and salt meats and fish, butter, eggs, wooden ware, 
etc. Twenty assistants, including several commercial travellers, find 
occupation with the firm. Both members of the firm are energetic, 
prompt and intelligent representatives of the best element of our 
business community. Mr. Ely has been a resident of Binghamton for 
thirty-five years, and Mr. Leighton may be said to hnve grown up in 
the house, and is thoroughly acquainted with all the details of the 
business. 

THE CHENANGO VALLEY FLOUR MILLS, 

George Q. Moon &. Co., Proprietors. 

The Chenango Valley Flour Mills were established in 18B5 by Mr. 
George Q. Moon, who conducted them until 1880. when Mr. Robert J. 
Bates became associated with him under the above named firm title. 
The mill and elevator of the firm, which is the most prominent building 
to meet the eye of a stranger on alighting from the cars at passenger 
stations, is located adjoining the railroad system of the city, and switches 
from the Erie. D.. L. & W. and D. & H. C. railways enter the premises, 
thus affording the most advanced receiving and shipping facilities. The 
elevator has a storage capacity of 100,000 bushels of grain, and the mill 
is equipped with the full roller system, embodying all the latest im- 
provements of the day. and has a capacity for producing 300 barrels of 
flour and three car-loads of meal daily. About fifty workmen are given 
employment and an engine of '-200-horse power furnishes the motive 
force to the mechanical equipment of the mill and elevator. The gentle- 
men at the head of this enterprise are influential members of the com- 
munity, who are closely identified with the city's progress and develop- 
ment. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 41 

ISAAC LAUDER & SON, 

Marble and Granite Works, 6 1 Eldredge St. 

A prominent and old established house engaged in the production 
of marble and granite monuments is that of Messrs. Isaac Lauder & 
Son. which was originally founded in 1879 by Mr. Isaac Lauder, who 
commenced business at Oneonta, removing here some years later, and 
in 1890 the present firm was organized by the admission of Mr. James 
Lauder to an interest in the business. In connection with the work in 
hand, premises are occupied comprising a shop, yards, etc, where an 
average of six skilled workmen are steadily employed. The firm man- 
ufacture everything in the way of monumental and cemetery work 
both in marble ana granite. Their productions are distinguished for 
their good taste and artistic design, and thus a large and widely extended 
patronage has been achieved, spreading throughout the city and sur- 
rounding territory. The facilities of the firm are such that all orders 
may be promptly filled, and estimates and drawings are cheerfully sub- 
mitted. The firm also carry a considerable stock of finished headstones 
and monuments from which selections can be made. Operating under 
the most favorable conditions, we may also state that the prices are dic- 
tated by a spirit of moderation which has done much to gain patronage. 
Many handsome specimens of the firm's handiwork may be seen in the 
cemeteries of Binghamton and vicinity, and references to patrons will 
be made to those desiring. Mr. Isaac Lauder is a practical marble and 
granite workman and is possessed of a high order of artistic skill and 
good taste, and his son may be said to have been brought up in the 
business. Their enterprise is doing its full share in the industrial de- 
velopment of Binghamton and is certainly one of its leading and repre- 
sentative establishments. 



THE CLARENCE E. BEACH ELECTRICAL 
SUPPLY CO., 

1 36 State Street. 

The enterprise forming the caption of this article is the outgrowth 
of the electrical department of the firm of Vickers, Brooker & Co.,. 
which was instituted in 1890 and came under its present management 
and title in October last past. The management is in the capable and 
energetic hands of Messrs. Clarence E. & George S. Beach, who are in 
every way equipped by experience and study of the science and practice 
of electricity to skillfully conduct all its operations and make the enter- 
prise one of the important industrial resources of Binghamton. Thw 
firm carry in stock a full and complete line of electrical goods and sup- 
plies, and novelties in electrical goods are constantly being added as 
fast as introduced. They are also prepared to undertake the faithful 
performance of all kinds of electrical work for private residences, man- 
ufactories and public buildings. They make a specialty of electric bell 
wiring, electric light wiring and fitting of buildings, hotels and apart- 
ment houses with electric bell annunciators, letter boxes, speaking 
tubes, etc., and in fact are ready with all facilities to promptly execute 
all kinds of electrical work. Already a large and growing trade has 
been built up by the firm which extends generally throughout this sec- 
tion of the State and Northern Pennsylvania and gives ample evidence 
of steady increase. The enterprise being in the hands of pushing and 
energetic men of broad-gauge ideas anfl fully abreast of the times in all 
that leads to success and influence, its future prominence and useful- 
ness may be confidently predicted. 



42 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

J. B. WEED & CO., 

Manufacturers of Upper Leather. 

This enterprise, which is one of the largest of its kind in the country 
as well as one of the oldest, was originally founded in 1838 by the late 
Marshall H. Weed, who was a pioneer in his line and who created a 
national reputation for the superiority of his leather. The present firm, 
consisting of Messrs. J. B. & F, M. Weed, sons of the founder, succeeded 
to the business in 1860. The firm's plant in this city, including yards 
for storing bark, covers about five acres, upon which are erected several 
extensive buildings. The tannery is a two and one-half story brick 
building. 80x250 feet in dimensions, the currying shop is a five-story 
brick building, 40x250 feet, and besides these main structures are others 
used for storage, boiler and engine-houses, etc. The mechanical equip- 
ment embraces two steam engines of 250-horse power combined, five 
steam boilers, and all the latest improved machinery known to the trade. 
About 200 workmen find employment in the tannery, and about 100,000 
hides are annually made into leather. The product consists of boot and 
pebble grain, split leather, buff glove and oil leather and imitation goat, 
the latter being a prominent specialty of the firm. All their products, 
bear the highest reputation in the trade for superior quality. In con- 
nection with their manufacturing operations in this city the firm own 
extensive tracts of forest land in Potter County. Pennsylvania, from 
which they obtain their supply of bark for tanning purposes, and of 
which they use upwards of 8.000 cords annually. Upon this land they 
have saw-mills and a large number of laborers are employed in getting 
out lumber and bark and preparing it for shipment. The trade of the 
house extends throughout the United States, wherever boot and shoe 
manufacturing is carried on. and their products are also exported to 
foreign countries. The members of the firm are among the most active 
and progressive manufacturers of the Empire State and few, if any, 
have done more to promote the industrial thrift of Binghamton. 



JOSEPH P. NOYES & CO., 

Manufacturers of Combs and Buttons, 1 3 Ferry Street. 

The enterprise of Messrs. Joseph P. Noyes & Co. is the direct suc- 
cessor of one of the oldest manufacturing houses in America, and one 
of the very few in this country which have been continuously conducted 
by members of the same family for so long a period. It was originally 
instituted in Essex county, Mass., in 1759, by the ancestors of the present 
proprietors, who were the pioneers of the comb making industry in this 
country. After a series of changes in the composition of the proprietor- 
ship, the business was removed to this city in 1805 b}^ Messrs. E. M. 
Noyes & Bro., the present firm title having been adopted in 187!t, the 
present proprietors being Mr. Joseph P. Noyes. and his son, Joseph K. 
Noyes. The manufacturing plant is comprised in a series of suitable 
buildings, the main factory being a modern five-story brick structure, 
which are equipped with all necessary machinery, much of which is of 
the firm's own invention and was especially designed for their uses, 
power being obtained from a valuable and ample water privilege, and 
employment being furnished to from 50 to 75 operatives. A feat- 
ure of the plant is a well equipped machine shop, which is maintained 
hy the firm for the production and repair of their own mechanism. The 
products of the house are of two entirely different classes — combs and 
buttons. The former consist of hickle plated, patent metallic-back raw 
horn combs, of which the firm were the original inventors, and which 
are made in a variety of shapes, sizes, styles and manners of finishing. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 43 

The latter product is a specialty, and consists solely of patent hand- 
snap buttons. These buttons are made in two parts, and are designed 
to replace missing buttons on garments without the use of a needle and 
thread. They are applied instantly and the two parts snap together 
with firmness and strength by the force of the hand, and by the use of 
them the traveller, the farmer, the laborer, the mechanic, the growing 
boy, and men of every profession can instantly replace missing buttons 
with these and with the assurance that the hand-snap buttons will prove 
far more serviceable than any that could be put on with thread. Both 
lines of goods are widely sold throughout the United States and are in 
the hands of the jobbing trade in all the cities of the country, besides 
which considerable quantities are exported. The enterprise has been 
an important factor in building up the industrial resources of Bingham- 
ton, and has added to the diversified character of the manufactures of 
this city, which is so much better for a locality than a preponderance of 
one kind of production. Mr. Joseph P. Noyes is one of the substantial 
and public-spirited citizens of Binghamton, closely identified with its 
advance and prosperity and active in all measures promising good to 
this community. He is also largely interested in other business enter- 
prises of this city, is a large real estate holder, and is prominent in mat- 
ters relating to the amelioration of the needy: at present he is the Pres- 
ident of both the Susquehanna Valley House for Cliildren and the Board 
of Associated Charities. One hundred and thirty-two years is a long 
period, longer even than the history of our nation, and this well-known 
establishment, with such a record, has substantial claims to the high 
reputation and eminent position it has so long enjoyed in the commerce 
and industrv of this countrv. 



WILLIAM F. YOUNG, 

Manufacturer of Butter Tubs, Firkins and Cooperage, 7, 9 and 1 1 Washington 

Street. 

The cooper shop of Mr. William F. Young was originally instituted 
in 1850 by its present proprietor, who is one of the pioneers of the manu- 
tacturing advancement of the city and is probably the only manufac- 
turer in the city to-day who has continuously, without change, con- 
ducted one and the same enterprise in one place for so many years. His 
enterprise embraces the manufacture of butter tubs and firkins for but- 
ter packers in this vicinity chiefly, for which he has all the necessary 
facilities, including a commodious shop, outbuildings for storage, etc., 
the equipment including a l:2-horse power steam engine. He also deals 
in cooperage stock of all kinds and coopers" tools, supplying the same 
to the trade in Southern New York and Northern Penns\'lvania in 
quantities to suit. He carries a full and complete stock of staves. hoop poles 
and heading, procured direct from the original sources of supply, which 
he offers at the lowest market prices. Mr. Young is a practical cooper 
and at one time was engaged in the business of making sugar casks on 
the island of Cuba. After his establishment in this city, for many years 
he was a large shipper of cooperage stock to Cuba, which was obtained 
from the forests near this city and forwarded to New York by canal 
for shipment. The exhaustion of the timber in this neighborhood re- 
sulted in a stoppage of this department of the industry, the staves re- 
quired for the manufacture of butter tubs now being procured from 
Kentucky. Tennessee and other Southern States. Mr. Young is one of 
the most esteemed and respected citizens of Binghamton. is a large 
holder of real estate here and has done much toward the building up of 
the city. For ten years he was city assessor, which office he conducted 
to the entire satisfaction of the community and honor to himself, volun- 
tarily declining re-election. 



44 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 




JONES OF BINGHAMTON, 

Manufacturer of the United States Standard Scales, 
Office and Works, Binghamton, N. Y. 

American genius and enterprise 
challenge comparison with the world. 
The character of our products has 
made for them a market in every land 
the sun shines on, and most of the val- 
uable contributions to mechanics have 
had their origin, or else have been de- 
veloped to perfection in the United 
States. In no line of production is 
this fact more prominent than in the 
construction of scales and weighing 
machines. Strength, durability and 
perfect accuracy have made American 
scales famous throughout the world, 
aiul eminently, those manufactured by 
Jones of Binghamton far excel in all 
desirable qualities those of any other 
nation on the globe. This great enter- 
ic ;;;o^>-v^v-:;-- prise, the pride of Binghamton. and 
one which has done more to advertise this city at home and abroad 
than an 5^ other located here, was founded in 1865 by the Hon. Edward 
F. Jones and in J8S8 was incorporated under its present title, which had 
become a household word in every town, village and hamlet from ocean 
to ocean as well as in many foreign lands. The enterprise w^as begun 
upon a very modest scale when compared with its present extensive 
proportions, but its growth and expansion was assured from its start, 
and each year has added to its importance until to-day in its special line 
it has few if any equals and iio superiors, either as to extent of territory 
covered by its trade or reputation for quality of products. That the 
operation of an extensive industry of this character should require a 
large plant is self-evident. The works cover an area of about four 
acres, upon which are erected numerous substantial brick buildings, 
each designed for some specific department of the business and each. 
possessing every facility that ample capital could provide or experience 
and progressive enterprise could suggest, and the whole replete with an 
enormous equipment of general machinery, besides many special appli- 
ances and delicate devices necessary for the prosecution of a business 
requiring such accuracy of detail. During the past summer important 
additions and improvements have been made to the works in the way 
of several new buildings. A new brass and iron foundry 50x150 feet in 
dimensions has been erected, as well as anew forge-shop 40x(j0 feet, and 
a new two-story machine shop 30x5(), which with the main four-story 
machine shop and other former buildings place the company's facilities 
on a par with the largest concerns of the kind in the world. The mo- 
tive power is supplied from a 100-horse power steam engine. In the 
manufacture of their scales the company use about ten tons of iron 
daily and their yearly consumption of lumber aggregates upw^ards of 
half a million feet. Since the completion of the company's improve- 
ments to their plant, the force of workmen has been augmented and 
two hundred and fifty now find employment in the several departments 
of the works, and thus the influence of their location here is of incalcu- 
lable benefit to Binghamton. as by the disbursement of a large sum 
weekly in wages the material prosperity of the city is greatly enhanced. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 45 

Jones of Binghamton manufactures every description of scale known 
from the minute letter scale weighing a fraction of an ounce to the 
powerful track and platform scales capable of accurately weighing one 
hundred and fifty tons and upwards. In all of these, perfect accuracy 
is the distinguishing feature. The Jones of Binghamton scales are in 
use in every part of the world where commerce exists and they have 
become the standards of the world of weights. They are in use in many 
of the principal elevators, stock yards, mills, warehouses and upon 
leading railroads in this country and abroad, and are being universally 
adopted in the departments of the government. Every scale is guaran- 
teed to be a correct weighing machine, made only of the best materials 
by the most skilled w^orkmen and is warranted for five years. They 
also warrant their scales to suit, and in order that the custoiner may 
judge for himself as to that, the scales are sold to any responsible per- 
son in any part of the United States, on trial, and the price includes 
cost of freight to any railroad station or steamboat landing in the 
United States or Canada. From this feature originated the expression, 
*' Jones, he pays the freight." which has become one of those happy ad- 
vertising phrases so familiar to every inhal)itant of America, that has 
never been equalled either in pojjularity or pointedness. While all the 
scales manufactured by this company are of the latest and most im- 
proved patterns and are absolutely correct in principle and operation, 
their track scales of all sizes and capacities are made upon a principle 
entirely different and in advance of all others, and under patents owned 
solely by themselves. The theory and principle which obtain in all 
scales of this company's make and their original improvements and 
adaptations make them first in strength, simplicity, economy of con- 
struction, accuracy and durability, and these features when added to 
the recognized low prices make them indeed the choice of all thinking 
people. This great industry now successfully entered upon its second 
quarter of a century's usefulness has been a powerful factor in attract- 
ing attention to Binghamton as an advantageous location for the es- 
tablishment of industrial or commercial operations. Concerning its 
founder and present head, little could be said in a volume of this char- 
acter that would add to the esteem in which he is so wideh^ held by the 
public and trade at large. If, perchance, however, there might be 
some corner of the country into which his name and fame as a scale- 
maker or as a public man has not yet penetrated, it may be said that 
the Hon. Edward F. Jones, now and since 188ti Lieutenant-Governor of 
New York State, is a native of Utica, X. Y. He was Colonel of the valor- 
ous Gth Massachusetts Regiment, whose desperate march through the 
streets of Baltimore is one of the histoiic events of the great rebellion. 
The regiment was the first to reach Washington and to it has been ac- 
corded the credit of saving the capitol. Having gained distinguished 
honors in the service of the Union he came to Binghamton at the close 
of the war and founded the great scale-works which bear his name. 
His voice has always been raised for such measures as would benefit 
the people and he was one of the earliest members of the New York 
State Grange. Concluding i his brief sketch of the facilities and pro- 
ducts of this organization, we may be permitted to say that its present 
extent and high reputation has been built up and maintained b.y a con- 
stant aim to make only the most reliable goods and the most strict in- 
tegrity in every transaction, and its history and success should be con- 
sidered as significant incentives to those who would know the benefits 
to be derived from patience in well-doing, untiring industry and uncom- 
promising honesty in all dealings. 



46 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

LYNCH & CHRISTIE, 

Crates, Mantels and Tiles, 86 State Street. 

Nothing adds so greatly to the interior decoration of a room as a 
handsome mantel with fireplace and grate, while the usefulness of thi& 
adjunct both as a matter of comfort in the early fall and spring and as . 
adding to the cheerfulness of an apartment, hotel reading room or pub- 
lic room is well attested by all. Messrs. Lynch & Christie of this city 
are prepared to furnish everything in this line of the highest artistic 
character and in the greatest variety of styles and designs. The firm 
occupy commodious premises at the above indicated address, which are 
handsomely and attractively arranged so that patrons may make selec- 
tions understandingly. The main floor is divided into a number of 
apartments, in which the mantels are set up and surrounded with car- 
pets, rugs and furniture in such a manner as to give the appearance of 
a finished room, enabling the customer to see the design as it would 
appear in a finished residence. Besides the large and varied stock 
carried, any special design is promptly furnished, and in fact every ad- 
vantage and accommodation is offered by the firm that can be obtained 
in the great metropolitan trade centres. This enterprise was instituted 
in 1885 and has since built up a large and growing trade that extends 
throughout the city and vicinit3^ Aside from the above mentioned en- 
terprise in which as a firm they carry on the business, each of the mem- 
bers is largely engaged in a separate industry on his own account. Mr. 
J. R. Lynch has been engaged since 1880 in the execution of tin and 
iron roofing of all kinds and galvanized iron cornice work, in which he 
has met with great success, and Mr. Walter Christie has since 1876 been 
engaged in handling all kinds of roofing slate at wholesale and retail 
and in the erection of slate roofs, as well as the production of marbleized 
slate mantels, enjoying a trade that extends throughout Southern New 
York and Northern Pennsylvania and giving employment to from 
twelve to fifteen skilled workmen. In each of these several branches 
of trade these gentlemen have long been l^^aders, and the success and 
prominence attending their efforts have added no little to the reputa- 
tion of this city as a source of supply for first-class goods. 



BINGHAMTON GLOVE AND MITTEN M'F'G. CO. 

9 1 State Street. 

The marked diversity of the industries of this city is particularly 
illustrated in the establishment of the Binghamton Glove and Mitten 
Manufacturing Co., which was organized in 1888 by Mr. Frederick J. 
Bryant, its present sole proprietor, and has since acquired a reputation 
and a trade that extends throughout New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio 
and Michigau, and is annually increasing in volume. The prenuses oc- 
cupied for the business are commodious and fully equipped with all the 
latest and most improved machinery and tools for the economical pro- 
duction of light and heavy gloves and mittens, employment being given 
to about twenty -five skilled opsratives. The company's specialties 
comprise a general line of fine grades of gloves and mittens in calfskin, 
hogskin, buckskin and other materials. The goods are made for men's 
and boys' w^ear and they are specially designed for first-class trade. The 
facilities of the house are altogether of the best character, assuring per- 
fection of product, at the same time that the prices will be found fair 
and reasonable and based on liberality. No goods made anywhere give 
any better satisfaction to the public and dealers will find them the most 
advantageous to handle. Mr. Bryant is a practical and experienced 
manufacturer and an enterprising business man. All goods manufac- 



THE CITY OF BINGHAM TON. 47 

tiired receive rigid inspection at his hands before shipment and as a 
result, only those that can be classed as perfect in all respects are allow- 
ed to go out of the establishment. The enterprise is a valuable addition 
to the industrial resources of the city, and its growth and prosperit.y are 
alike creditable to Binghamton and to its projector. We commend the 
house to the trade, wherever lor-ated, with the assurance that relations^ 
entered into with it will prove pleasant, permanent and proiitable. 



H. T. ALDEN, 

Cigar Manufacturer, 247 Water Street. 

The cigar manufacturing enterprise of Mr. H. T. Alden has done 
much to promote the industry in this city, and while its annual output 
is not so great in quantity as that of some others, this lacking in quan- 
tity is more than made up in the fine quality of the cigars produced. 
Mr. Alden manufactures cigars for fine retail trade only, and his products 
are all hand-made, the finest qualities of Havana and domestic tobacco 
being used. The business was established about nine years ago, since 
which time a trade has been built up that extends throughout Pennsyl- 
vania and New York and an annual production of about 800,000 cigars 
is turned out. The manufacturing facilities embrace two floors and the 
basement of the building at the above indicated address, where an aver- 
age force of seventeen skilled workmen is employed. Among the chief 
brands of the house are " H. A..'' *' La Flor de Sota," '"Key West" and 
" Order of Railroad Conductors." These are strictly first-class domestic 
cigars, made from carefully selected leaf, by skilled workmen, and are 
guaranteed to be of invariable uniformity. Some five -cent goods are 
also produced, which are also the best of their grade and are kept 
fully up to the standard. Among these the "Jockey Queen" and 
•" Camp Fire" are each in popular demand and are commended as being- 
full value for the money. Mr. Alden is widely known in the trade as a 
genial gentleman and enterprising manufacturer, and his success is. 
alike creditable and gratifying to both his customers and himself. 



C. S. DARLING, 

Wholesale Dealer in Chicago Dressed Beef, 25 North Depot Street. 

The method of slaughtering cattle, sheep and hogs in the West and 
shipping the dressed meats to the East where it arrives as sweet and 
fresh as the day it was killed, has proved to be a most satisfactory one, 
and is carried out to perfection by the house of Mr. C. S. Darling in this 
city, who is a wholesale dealer in Chicago dressed beef, mutton, lambs 
and packing house products. The premises occupied are embraced in 
the first floor and basement of the large building, located as above indi- 
cated, which is so situated with reference to the railroad tracks that 
refrigerator cars used for transporting the beef are unloaded direct into 
the building. Constructed in the building is a large refrigerator, or 
cooler, which is capable of storing GO carcasses, and this room is kept at 
an even temperature of about :i8 degrees. Mr. Darling handles N. 
Morris & Co.'s Chicago beef exclusively, and he also deals in frest mut- 
ton, lambs, pork. etc. The trade of the house extends throughout 
Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania. Mr. Darling insti- 
tuted his enterprise in January, 1889, and has since built up a large and 
growing trade, induced here by the superior quality of the products 
handled. He is a pushing and progressive business man and an 
esteemed citizen and his house is one of the important factors of the 
trade resources of this growing commercial city. 



48 THK CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

J. E. SEARLES, 

Wholesale and Retail Tobacconist and Confectioner, 1 54 Washington 
Street and 1 22 Court Street. 

A leading and representative factor of the jobbing trade of Bing- 
hamton is the house of Mr. J. E. Searles. who commenced business here 
in 1880. and has since built up a large clientage among tbe retail dealers 
in the city and surrounding country, whicli is annually growing in im- 
portance.^ Mr. Searles conducts two stores, the main headquarters of 
the business being located at 122 Court street and a branch store at 154 
Washington street. At the latter a wholesale and retail trade in tobacco, 
cigars, cigarettes and smokers' articles is carried on, while at the main 
store the stock embraces, besides full lines of tobacco, cigars and smok- 
ers' articles, a particularly complete stock of confectionery suitable for 
general trade, walking canes in large variety, jewelry and cutlery. All 
goods are procured direct from manufacturers in large quantities and 
are offered at prices that command attention and are quite as low as 
may be obtained elsewhere from more distant localities, while prompt 
and immediate delivery and in quantities to suit are advantages not 
obtainable when purchases are made in other cities. A specialty of the 
house is the finest brands of case goods in original packages direct from 
manufacturers. Mr. Searles is a progressive business man and enter- 
prising in all his methods. He is thoroughly acquainted with the de- 
mands of his trade ?^nd he affords the most advanced accommodations 
for procuring anything in his line. 



THE M. I. S. T. COMPANY. 

Factory and Headquarters, Washington, D. C. Binghamton Office, 
1 68 Water Street. 

The fame of the great remedy made by the above company is wide- 
spread, and apart from the making of money by legitimate enterprise 
the benefit thus conferred upon suffering humanity is almost incalcula- 
ble. In this city the company's office is under the efiicient management 
of Mr. D. W. Hill, and his territory embraces the whole of Broome 
county. M. I. S. T. signifies Murray's Infallible System Tonic. It is a 
well-known fact that upon the purity of the blood depends the health of 
the human being. The Scriptures declare that "the blood is the life," 
and well is that fact demonstrated by modern science. M. I. S. T. is a 
tonic which regulates the blood, purifies it and frees it from poison and 
stimulates the circulation. It acts directly upon the liver and kidneys, 
secures a perfect evacuation of the system through the natural channels, 
thus expelling all poisons. It is particularly beneficial in cases of 
catarrh, liver complaints, kidney diseases, constipation, female weak- 
ness, scrofula, heart disease, skin diseases, piles, rheumatism, fever and 
ague, dyspepsia and other maladies. It is compounded from natural 
vegetable products, according to an approved and well-tried formula, 
and it will absolutely perform all that is claimed for it. Thousands of 
testimonials have been received from all parts of the country, and at the 
office in this city may be seen letters from well-known residents, right 
here, who will be glad to testify to the benefits they have derived from 
its use. This specific is sovereign in its effects, and our readers will be 
repaid a hundred-fold if they will but investigate the merits of M. I. S. T. 
To those who are afflicted with disease of any kind, the only way to as- 
sure recovery is to purify and enrich the blood. M. I, S. T. will do this; 
it will cure the sick, give them new life and thus make their surround- 
ings once more rosy-hued and happy. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 49 



G. H. & E. A. FORD, 

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Coal, 2 1 O Chenango Street. 

One of the most important factors of the coal trade in Binghamton 
is the enterprise of Messrs. G. H. & E. A. Ford, which was established 
in 1871 by Mr. R. A. Ford, father of the present proprietors, who suc- 
ceeded to the business in 18!)]. The firm are the most extensive retail 
oealers in coal in Binghamton, and they fill orders by the car-load at 
wholesale, shipments being made direct from the mines to destination 
without breaking bulk, while their facilities for supplying the retail 
trade by the ton, embrace the possession of a large yard located on the 
line of the railroad system of the city, admitting of cars being unloaded 
direct into the storage sheds without rehandling. The natural as well 
as the acquired resources of the firm are unsurpassed by those of any 
of their cotemporaries and these advantages are promptly shared with 
their customers. Their location is a most central one and telephone 
connection insures the most prompt delivery of orders. The firm gives 
employment to twenty-five hands, including teamsters for delivery. 
They handle chiefly the D. & H. C. Co.'s anthracite coal, than which 
there is iio better for all purposes, and also Kentucky, Ohio and Penn- 
sylvania bituminous coals. About 25,000 tons of anthracite coal are 
handled annually, and their business is constantly increasing in 
volume. In all their operations the firm will be found prompt, liberal 
and enterprising, always solicitous for the benefit of their patrons and 
always prepared to offer advantages in keeping with such a reputation. 



BEMAN & BAYLESS, 

Manufacturers of Keg and Barrel Heads, Tub Covers and Packing Boxes, 
5, 7, 9 and 1 1 Frederick Street. 

The extensive manufacturing business conducted by Messrs. Beman 
& Bayless in this city is one which has been called into existence by 
other large manufacturing houses of this and other localities. Although 
to the casual reader the caption of this article may not have great sig- 
nification, a little investigation will prove that a great deal underlies 
it and that an industry of an important and growing character has 
been built up with these articles for chief products. This enterprise was 
founded in 1868 and has since grown to such proportions that it requires 
several million feet of lumber annually to supply the material for the 
product of this factory. The plant is embraced in a series of suitable 
buildings covering about half a city block and adjoining lumber yards 
embracing six acres. The mill is fully equipped with late improved 
special machinery and large modern dry kilns and is operated by 100- 
horse power steam plant. Employment is given to from 50 to 75 work- 
men. The firm also have a saw-mill at Great Bend, Pa., where about 30 
men are employed getting out stock with which to supply the works in 
this city. The firm make a specialty of heads for soda, nail and horse- 
shoe kegs and cement and cracker barrels. They also turn out butter 
tub covers and packing boxes. All these products are turned out in 
large quantities by machinery at lowest possible cost and are widely 
distributed to the trade chiefly in the Eastern markets, shipments being- 
made in carload lots. In packing boxes the product is largely taken by 
local manufacturers, thousands of boxes being annually made for Dr. 
Kilmer & Co.'s medicines, Frank E. Harris" extracts and the cigar 
industrv. The individual members of the firm are Messrs. E. A. Beman 
and John Bayless, both well-known and influential residents of Bing- 
hamton who enjoy the esteem and consideration of this community 
whose industrial advancement is greatly benefited by the enterprise 
thev so ablv conduct. 



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THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



BINGHAMTON BRANCH, U. S. BAKING CO., 

Wholesale Cracker and Cake Manufacturers. Factories : 1 54- and 1 56 State 
Street and 3, 5 and 7 Commercial Avenue. 

The Bingiiamton Branch of the 
United States Baking Company was 
formed by the combination on Au- 
gust 1, 1891. of the enterprises for- 
merly conducted by Messrs. Ira J. 
Meagley & Co. and C. C. Jackson, 
respectively. This company now 
operates upwards of thirty cracker 
manufactories in the various prin- 
cipal cities of the country and, while 
by this means ruinous competition 
has been to a considerable extent cut 
off, the prices of the products have 
not been advanced, but on the con- 
trary in many cases lowered, this 
being made possible by the introduc- 
tion of the very latest improved 
methods and the consequent reduction of the cost of production. The 
business of the company in this city is conducted under the manage- 
ment of Mr. Ira J. Meagley. Two plants are operated, each being fully 
equipped with all the latest improved machinery and appliances, 
operated by steam power and furnishing employment in the several de- 
partments to about forty skilled assistants. Here crackers, cakes and 
biscuits are made from the best obtainable materials, after the most 
scientific process and with chemical exactitude, resulting in a uniform 
good product, which is in large and growing demand throughout South- 
ern and Central New York and Northern Pennsylvania to the exclusion 
of all others. The variety of goods produced by the company seems 
almost interminable and iucludes 03^ster, butter and milk crackers, water 
crackers,soda crackers, ginger snaps, lemon cakes, iced cakes, menagerie 
crackers, tea cakes, etc., and a multitude of other equally popular and 
salable crackers and cakes for family use, hotels and restaurants. The 
goods are put up attractively in barrels, boxes and cartoons, and the 
trade and consumers exhibit by the increasing demand for the products 
their due appreciation of their high character. 




BURHANS & BARNES, 

General Insurance and Real Estate Agents, Hagaman Block. 

There is no more inviting field for real estate operations than the 
city of Bingiiamton presents at the present time. The scale upon which 
public improvements are being conducted, with the vast outlying terri- 
tory constantly being laid out. augmented by a rapidly increasing popu- 
lation, all combine to give real estate investments a stability, with 
assurance of rapidly enhancing values which would be hard to dupli- 
cate. Messrs. Burhans & Barnes occupy a prominent position among 
the leading and reliable real estate agents of this city, and they possess 
unsurpassed facilities for buying, selling, exchanging and renting real 
estate. They have a large list of business and residence properties on 
their books as well as vacant lots and tracts in all parts of the city. 
They have one tract of 100 lots in the east end of the city, which is one 
of the most important and attractive suburban sections of Bingiiamton 
and is destined to become one of its most thickly settled. A number of 
large manufacturing establishments have already been erected in this 
vicinity and others are to follow, and lots purchased now in this section 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. • 51 

are sure to increase in value to many times their cost, and that, too 
within a very short period. The firm transact a general real estate 
business, collect rent, take full charge of estates and for non-residents 
pay taxes, effect loans on bond and mortgage, and buy and sell real es- 
tate, and their reliability and responsibility are proverbial. The firm 
also transacts a general insurance business and are among the leading 
underwriters of this vicinity and represent the following staunch com- 
panies : The St. Paul Fire and Marine of St. Paul ; the Caledonian of 
Scotland ; the Manchester of England ; the New Hampshire and the 
People's of Manchester, New Hampshire ; the Reading Fire of Reading, 
Pa. ; the Mechanics' and Traders' of New Orleans ; the American Cen- 
tral of St. Louis ; the State Investment of California ; the Northwestern 
of Milwaukee ; the Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Co. of Hartford, 
Conn. ; the American Surety Co. of New York, and the Preferred Mutual 
Accident Insurance Co. of New York. The combined assets of these 
companies represent many millions of dollars, and with such a list of 
prominent insurance organizations, the firm is prepared to accept the 
largest risks, guaranteeing absolute indemnity in case of loss. The firm 
also represent in this section the American Loan and Trust Co. of Ash- 
land, Neb., and the Equitable Mortgage Co. of Kansas, and investors 
and capitalists will find opportunities through these companies for 
profitable and safe investments in improved Western farms and city 
property with rates of interest far greater than is obtainable in the East. 
The members of the firm are Messrs. P. K. Burhans and Fred E. Barnes. 
The former has been prominently connected with the real estate and in- 
surance interests of Binghamton for the past twenty years, having foun- 
ded the business in 1872, and few men in the city are better qualified 
for its successful management. Mr. Barnes has been associated in the 
firm since 1888, and is a particularly energetic and active underwriter, 
to which bran.ch of the business he gives his special attention. The 
firm is well-balanced, prompt in adjusting losses, and an authority on 
real estate values, and with superior facilities in both departments of 
the business, command the confidence and respect of a large clientage. 



O. R. MASON, Agt., 

Plumber, Steam and Gas Fitter and Dealer in Gas Fixtures, No. 1 Wall Street. 

O. R. Mason is one of the oldest plumbers in the trade here having 
originally established himself here in 1863. His facilities embrace com- 
modious show-rooms and shop, located as above indicated, where a full 
and complete stock of plumbers' materials and supplies is carried as 
well as gas fixtures in large variety and steam and gas fittings. Mr. 
Mason makes a specialty of sanitary plumbing and ventilating accord- 
ing to the most scientific modern investigations, and all work performed 
by him is guaranteed to be as perfect as it is possible to procure any- 
where. A large and growing business has been established and many 
of the fin-est public buildings and private residences of this city and 
vicinity contain examples of his skill in this line of trade. Among them 
we note the Griffin & Burroughs block, the Water Works building, E. 
P. Smith's residence on Main Street and E. D. Vosbury's residence on 
Main Street. From four to six skilled workmen are steadily employed 
one being recognized as the most skilfuU and capable plumber in the 
city and excelled in either theory or practice by none other in the 
country. We commend this enterprise to such of our readers as are 
contemplating the erection of new buildings or the improvement of old 
with the assurance that relations formed with it will prove eminently 
satisfactorv. 



52 • THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

M'KINNEY, EVERTS & CO., 

Wholesale Dealers in Teas, Coffees and Spices, Etc., 1 86 and 1 S8 State St. 

This enterprise was originally instituted in 18*35 by Messrs. McKin- 
ney & Everts, the present firm having been formed in 1891, and for over 
a quarter of a century it has enjoyed an annually increasing- business, 
enlarging the scope of its operations and extending the territory of its 
tra le. The premises occupied as salesrooms, warehouse and manufac- 
turing departments are embraced in a three-story and basement brick 
building 45x00 feet in dimensions, which is furnished throughout with 
every modern facility for the prompt fulfilment of orders and the eco- 
nomical handling of goods. In the manufacturing department the lat- 
est improved machinery and appliances are in use, including coffee 
roasters, spice mills, etc., power being furnished by a :30horse power 
steam engine. The firm grind their own spices and put them up under 
their own trade marks, such being guaranteed strictly pure. They also 
roast and grind their own coffees, which bear an especially high repute 
in the market, and they also manufacture a superior grade of baking 
powder, besides a full line of extracts, etc. Besides goods of their own 
production their stock embraces teas, coffees, spices, canned goods, 
fancy groceries, grocers' sundries, etc.. their chief specialties, however, 
being teas, coffees and spices. A recent innovation of the firm is the 
direct importation of teas. The large trade built up by them in teas in- 
duced the firm, with commendable energy, to provide their customers 
with the most advanced facilities for procuring them, and early in Oc- 
tober of the present year the first invoice of "May pickings'' of Japan 
teas was received in Binghamton direct from Yokohoma by Messrs. 
McKinney, Everts & Co. This example of enterprise created quite a 
stir in the tea trade of the city and has resulted in great advantage not 
only to the firm accomplishing it. but to all the customers of the house. 
The individual members of the firm are Messrs. Edward P. McKinney, 
C. A. Everts and Edward McKinney, the latter being a son of the senior 
member of the firm. They are assisted in the management of the busi- 
ness by a force of ten employes, including five commercial travellers, 
and the trade of the house extends throughout Southern and Central 
New York and Northern Pennsylvania. 



WIEDMAN SHOE CO.. 

Manufacturers of Ladies', Misses' and Children's Solid Shoes, 
70 and 72 State Street. 

This busniess was founded in 1884 by Messrs. W. L. Wiedman and 
G. H. Buck, its present proprietors, to whose experience and ability in 
introducing new and desirable methods and processes in the manufac- 
ture of superior shoes, is largely due the pronounced success the house 
has attained in the trade. The company's plant is embraced in a four- 
story brick building of which they occupy three floors and which are 
equipped with all the latest improved machinery known to the world 
for the production of superior goods at a minimum cost, power being 
obtained from an electric motor and employment being given to about 
twenty-five skilled workmen. The products of the house consist of a 
general line of ladies.' misses* and children's fine and standard sewed 
shoes in kid. morocco, calf, grain and other leathers. All the products 
are strictly first-class goods made from the best and carefully selected 
materials and by skilled workmen, and for elegance of style and finish, 
beauty of appearance and durability are not excelled by those of any 
other house in the country. A recent novelty of the firm is a misses' 
and childs" shoe made from a new process tanned leather without the 



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use of bark. This leather is peculiarly soft in texture and yet is pos- 
sessed of great strength, it being next to impossible to tear and it will 
withstand any amount of pounding without cracking, a test that no 
leather of any other tannage will endure. The firm call this leather 
London Seal knd they guarantee shoes made from it to out-wear those 
made from any other leather in existence, yet their prices for these are 
no higher than for other standard goods. ^ The trade of the house ex- 
tends throughout N"ew York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and in the 
manufacture of an extra good quality of shoes it is doing much to 
attract the attention of the public to Binghamton as a source of supply 
for first-class manufactured products. 

WILKINSON & EASTWOOD, 

Manufacturers of Fancy Rockers, Binghamton, N. Y. 

This house was instituted 
in 1879 for the purpose of 
manufacturing boys" express 
wagons and sleds, but in 1886 
the character of the product 
was changed to the manu- 
facture of fine upholstered 
and cane-seat fancy rockers. 
So rapid has been the growth 
of the demand for the firm's 
productions, superinduced by 
their artistic character, 
beauty of design, fine finish 
and low cost, that within the 
space of the last two years 
the firm have been obliged to 
more than double their capac- 
itv and further enlargements are still in contemplation. The manufactur- 
ing plant covers nine city lots, upon which are erected large four-story 
brick and wooden buildings, large yards being also used for storing lumber. 
The mechanical equipment embraces all the latest improved modern ma- 
chinery, operated by steam power, and employment is furnished to one 
hundred skilled workmen. The products embrace fine upholstered 
chairs and fancy rockers in silk plush and silk tapestry, and these are 
made in many new and attractive designs, in various kinds of wood, 
highly polished, carved and ornamented. New and original designs are 
constantly being introduced and the firm have earned a high reputation 
for being"^fully abreast and in advance of the times with artistic novel- 
ties in their line. The products are all attractive. well made, artistically 
designed and finished, are salable and therefore just what the trade 
wants. While the trade of the house has so far been chiefly confined 
to the Eastern and Middle States, it is constantly increasing and ex- 
tending to more distant sections of the country. By reason of the prox- 
imity of Binghamton to all the great distributing centers of the East, 
the unsurpassed shipping facilities afforded here, and the complete 
plant of the firm as well as their progressive and pushing methods, 
they are enabled to otter the trade inducements in prompt filling of 
orders and low prices that bid fair to long insure a steady continuance 
of past success. The members of the firm are Messrs. C. A. Wilkinson 
and W. H. Eastwood, both active and enterprising business men, in the 
prime of their usefulness, who take a pride in their business as well as 
in the city. The policy upon which the business is conducted is a fair 
and liberal one and the goods manufactured can be classed among the 
best which a.\\y market affords. 




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THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



FOLMSBEE & IVES, 

Manufacturers of Fine Cigars, 37 and 39 Hawiey Street. 

The aim of the proprietors of this house has always been to make a 
class of goods that should fully merit the good opinion of smokers, and 
to scrupulously maintain their brands, and the result has been the es- 
tablishment of a permanent and growing trade which gives every indi- 
cation of rapid and steady increase in the future. The facilities of the 
firm embrace a commodious factory, where a force of skilled workmen 
is employed, all operations being conducted under the immediate per- 
sonal supervision of the proprietors, both of whom are practical and ex- 
pert cigarmakers. The products of the factory are exclusively hand- 
made cigars. The chief brands of the firm are the "Puritan" and 
" Folmsbee & Ives No. 1," which are beyond question the very best ten- 
cent cigar made in Binghamton and equal to any made elsewhere. 
Each cigar is the product of the labor of one person in its entirety, and 
for uniformity in material and workmanship is unsurpassed. They are 
made from the finest Havana leaf tobacco, and are warranted to be ex- 
actly as represented. The firm being practical manufacturers are also 
expert judges of tobacco and only the best is used for these brands. To 
accommodate their trade they also manufacture a cheaper grade of 
cigars, which under the brand of " F. & I.,'" are equally in demand at 
the price, are long-filler and hand-made, and sold at five cents. As an 
evidence of the quality of the goods made by the firm, it may be re- 
marked that their product is almost entirely taken in the local market, 
which, in the view of the fact that Binghamton has the choice of the 
products of all the factories located here, is a tribute to the superior 
quality of those made by this firm. The members of the firm are C. E. 
Folmsbee and G. O. Ives. 



THE BINGHAMTON WIRE GOODS CO., 

Manufacturers of Wire Work and Wire Goods, 1 98 and 200 State St. 

This enterprise was originally founded in 1881 by the late F. A. 
Hoag. In 1886 the firm of Hoag & Titchener was formed and they in 
turn were succeeded by the Binghamton Wire Goods Co. in 1890, of 

which F. A. Hoag, since 
deceased, E.H. Titchener 
and E. Harris were the 
co-partners. The com- 
pany occupy about 13,000 
square feet of floorage 
and the works are equip- 
ped with sper^ial machin- 
ery, operated by steam 
power, and furnish em- 
ployment to about a 
dozen skilled workmen. The business is divided into two separate 
departments, one for the manufacture of wire nails, staples, double- 
pointed tacks, etc., and the other for the manufacture of plain and 
ornamental wire work of all descriptions. For the former class of 
goods the company has agencies in all the principal cities of this coun- 
try and their wire nails, staples and double-pointed tacks are shipped 
to all parts of the country and exported to Canada and other foreign 
lands. The architectural revolutions of late 3^ears have wrought many 
important changes not only in forms but in materials employed, not 
the least important being the substitution of metals where wood was 




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55 



formerly used. 



In the second department of the company's business 
one part of this change is supplied 
in the manufacture of all kinds of 
plain and ornamantal wire work 
for office, counter and bank rail- 
ings, window guards, elevator 
enclosures, piazza panels, brass 
and iron grilles for windows, etc. 
These goods are made in a great 
variety of styles and designs from 
bright, coppered, galvanized, tin- 
ned and flat wire, plain and brass 
wire, from architects" drawings or 
otherwise as may be desired. 
Other goods handled by the firm are wire fencing, poultry netting, 
flower stands, spark guards, etc. Having unsurpassed facilities for 
promptness and good work, the firm make estirnates for all kinds of 
wire work and wire goods and guarantee satisfaction and lowest prices. 
In this department of their business the Binghamton Wire Goods Com- 
pany have a large local trade and also cover a large part of Southern 
New York and Northern Pennsylvania. The management of the busi- 
ness is in the hands of gentlemen of experience and pushing energy, 
who are closely identified with the growth and prosperity of Bingham- 
ton. 




WILLIAM H. OGDEN & CO., 



St. 



Manufacturers of Fine Cigars, 78 and SO State 

Binghamton owes much to the enterprise and ability of the houses 
engaged in the cigar manufacturing industry, and a leading and well- 
known representative of the trade is the house of Messrs. Wm. H. 
Ogden & Co., which was established August 14, 1889. and has since 
grown from modest beginnings to be one of the leading and shining 
lights of the trade. The firm occupy two floors of the building, located 
as above indicated, for manufacturing purposes, where employment is 
given to thirty-five skilled workmen, no machinery being employed, 
the products being chiefly strictly hand-made cigars, and the better 
grades. All their goods are made and packed under their own brands 
and are distributed to the retail trade in New York and Pennsylvania, 
where they have attained a popularity that is as widespread and per- 
manent as it is gratifying. The principal specialty of the firm is their 
"Escribanos" brand, which has probably met with as great favor as 
that of any other cigar ever before put upon the market, necessitating 
almost the entire attention of the firm to keep up with their orders. It 
is widely known for its fine natural aroma, its uniform quality and re- 
liability, and for genuine merit it is fully entitled to be classed as the 
finest made in this market. It is a straight ten-cent cigar and is for 
sale by leading dealers throughout the circuit of their trade. Their 
leading five-cent cigar is the "'Bow Knot." which is equally popular at 
the price. The annual output of the factory is about 3,000,000 cigars 
and the demand is steadily increasing. The members of the firm are 
Messrs. William H. Ogden. J. S. Ogden and William Ogden, Jr., all of 
whom take an active interest in the management of the business, and 
the result of their progressive methods is a superior grade of cigars, 
which the trade has been prompt to appreciate. The firm enjoys a 
high reputation for integrity and liberality and they are to be congrat- 
ulated upon the success they have achieved, which their enterprise so 
fully merits. 



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THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



L. DOOLITTLE, 

Binghamton City Mills, S South Street. 

The grinding of cereals for food is one of oldest and most prom- 
inent industries of all ages and is represented in Binghamton by a 
number of houses whose united operations are very large. Prominent 
among them is the Binghamton City Mills, of which Mr. L. Doolittle is 
the proprietor. This mill was first started about a quarter of a century 
ago. the present mill having been erected about six years ago. It is a 
three-story building 40x8('' feet in dimensions and is provided with four 
run of stone operated by water power and has a capacity for grinding 
about 650 bushels of grain daily. Only custom flouring is done, but 
considerable feed is ground and shipped to the trade throughout this 
and the adjoining counties, and Western flour, grain, and feed are also 
handled at both wholesale and retail. Mr. Doolittle is one of the 
pioneers of Binghamton"s industrial progress and has been a resident 
of the city for nearly half a century. He was at one time engaged in 
the lumber business and for a number of years also conducted a retail 
grocery store. Another of his enterprises was the carding of wool, 
which he carried on until' the change in business methods resulted in. 
this branch of production being transferred to other localities. Though 
actively engaged in business for so many years, he is still an energetic 
and progressive manufacturer and his present industry is one of the 
features of the commercial supremacy of this growing metropolis. 

W. W. HEMINGWAY, 

Plumber, steam and Gas Fitter and Dealer in Hardware, Stoves and Ranges, 
175 and 177 Washington Street, 

The most extensive establishment in 
Binghamton, devoted to the branch of com- 
mercial industry, implied in the caption of 
this article is that of Mr. W. W, Heming- 
way, which was originally founded in 1867 
by Mason. Root & Co.. who were succeeded 
in 1880 by J. W. Doubleday & Co., of which 
latter firm Mr. Hemingway was a member, 
and in 1889 he assumed sole control of the 
business. The headquarters of the business 
are embraced in a large double store and 
basement 43x120 feet in dimensions, which 
is handsomely fitted up and attractively 
arranged and contains a large and varied 
stock of goods embracing parlor heating 
stoves, furnaces, ranges, tinware and kitchen 
furnishing goods, gas fixtures, gas and 
steam fittings, plumbers" materials and supplies and indeed everything 
in these various lines required by the demands of the public. The house 
has the agency in this city for the Pease Economy Furnace, which is 
undoubtedly the very best furnace ever contrived for heating and 
ventilating dwellings, schools, churches, stores or other buildings, and 
is in use by many in this city and vicinity. Mr. Hemingway has ex- 
ecuted the plumbing, steam and gas fitting in very many private 
residences and public buildings in Binghamton, and his trade in stoves 
and ranges is widely recognized as being a most important one. A 
large variety of diff^erent st^Tes and makes of stoves is shown here and 
courteous assistants are pleased to explain their merits to all inquirers. 
As a representative progressive house this one is a marked feature of 
the trade resources of Binghamton and is justly ,entitled to the prom- 
inence it has achieved in the exercise of its liberal business policy. 




THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON, 57 

CHARLES E. LEE, 

Wholesale and Retail Dealer In Lumber, Building Materials, Cut-Stone, etc., 200 
Chenango St. and 1 OO to 1 50 Eldredge St. 

The oldest and most prominent house engaged in handling all the 
varied products implied in the caption of this article, in Binghamton, 
is that of Mr. Charles E. Lee. which was established in 1870, and has 
been conducted under his sole proprietorship since 1883. With head- 
quarters as above indicated, where two extensive yards, one for lime 
and sewer pipe and the other for kimber and stone cutting, are occupied, 
the house is in possession of every modern facility that tends to de- 
crease the cost of handling or promote the prompt fulfillment of orders. 
The yards are connected with the railroad system of the city by side 
tracks, which permits of the receipt and shipment of stock without re- 
handling, and large warehouses and sheds protect the materials from 
the weather. The stock handled embraces lumber of all kinds, hard- 
woods, shingles, lath, lime, cement, plaster, sewer-pipe, fire-brick, fire 
clay, chimney tops and cut-stone, the latter forming a very important 
branch of the business, requiring the services of a large number of 
skilled stone-cutters during the building season. All the goods handled 
by Mr. Lee are unrivalled for high quality and general excellence, and 
are received direct from the most noted manufacturers of the country 
in large quantities, and are offered to the trade at lowest prices. A full 
and complete assortment of regular sizes of fire-brick slabs is carried 
in stock and special sizes are made to order, while in general builders' 
materials the stock is ample to promptly meet the largest orders. From 
forty to seventy-five workmen are employed, the number varying with 
the "exigencies of the season, and besides an extensive and growing local 
business a large wholesale trade is transacted that extends throughout 
a large part of Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania. In 
every respect the facilities of the house are such as to have gained for 
it a wide reputation and placed it in the foremost rank of the success- 
ful establishments of the Parlor City. 



BINGHAMTON WOOLEN CO., 

Manufacturers of Blankets, Binghamton, N. Y. 

A recent and important addition to the diversified character of the 
industrial resources of Binghamton is the Binghamton Woolen Co. , 
which commenced operations here in July last. The manufacturing 
plant of the company is embraced in a three-story and basement build- 
ing 40x1 10 feet in dimensions, which is equipped with all the latest 
improved machinery known to the trade, and of a very superior char- 
acter, power being obtained from a 3o-horse power steam engine, and 
employment being given to about fifty operatives at present, which 
number it is contemplated will be gradually increased. The products- 
are made in a variety of fine and medium grades and in all the usual 
sizes in white and grey, and are trimmed and finished in the best 
manner. Only the best qualities of raw materials are used in their pro- 
duction, and already a large and growing demand has been built up 
for the goods which extends throughout the United States generally. 
The executive officers of the company are Messrs: C. A. Lull, President, 
andR. W. Meeker, Secretary and Treasurer, both gentlemen of com- 
prehensive business experience and enterprising methods equal to the 
requirements of the successful management of so important an enter- 
prise. I 



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THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



PERSELS & MACK, 

Manufacturers of Saddlery and Harness and Jobbers of Saddlery Hardware, 

4-0 Chenango St. 

No single firm in the city 
enjoys a higher reputation 
than Messrs. Persels & Mack. 
This house was originally 
instituted in 1872 bv Messrs. 
Smith and Persels. "^ In 1874 
the firm style changed to 
Smith, Persels & Co. In 1876 
it became Persels, Nicoll & 
Mack, and in 1890 the pres- 
ent firm of Persels & Mack, 
composed of Messrs. Henry 
Persels and Daniel H. Mack, 
succeded to the business. 
The present extensive prem- 
ises occupied by the firm 
were erected and taken pos- 
session of in 1886. The build- 
ing has three floors each 
24x1 15 feet in dimensions, the 
ground floor being used for 
office and salesroom and the 
upper floors for manufactur- 
ing purposes. The firm are 
wholesale dealers in sad- 
dlery hardware, and they 
carry an extensive stock of 
everything pertaining to the 
trade, of both foreign and 
domestic manufacture, from the cheapest buckle to the most expensive 
harness trimmings, and including also parts of harness gig saddles, 
winkers, bridles, housings, fronts, halters, reins, etc. In the manufac- 
turing department a large force of skilled workmen is employed, and 
fine hand-made single and double, light and heavy harness is manufac- 
tured. The productive capacity of the factory is about 3,000 sets of 
harness annually. Two travelling salesmen are employed and their 
trade extends throughout New England and the Middle States. The 
members of the firm are both gentlemen of high standing in this com- 
munity, of sound business judgment, who by energy and enterprise 
have built up from small beginnings this important addition to the 
manufacturing and jobbing interests of Binghamton. 




STONE & SANDERS. 

Dealers in Paints, Oils, Glass, etc., 7 Court St. 

The above named house is the oldest and most prominent represent- 
ative of the paint and oil trade of Binghamton, and its transactions 
form an important feature of the wholesale and retail accommodations 
of the city. The business was instituted in 1870, and has steadily ex- 
panded with the growth and development of the city, increasing its 
facilities and the scope of its operations as the requirements of its 
trade and this market made necessary. The premises occupied for the 
business are embraced in three floors, each 22x80, which afford ample 
accommodations for the storage of a large and complete stock and the 



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59 



prompt fulfillment of orders. The assortment carried is not only com- 
plete, but is also of admirable selection and quality, is purchased direct 
from the most noted manufacturers, and is offered to the trade, large 
consumers and the public upon the most advantageous terms. It in- 
cludes all kinds of ground and mixed paints, colors and white lead, oils, 
varnishes, glass and painters' materials, brushes, glue, japans, and in 
fact every conceivable article incident to the trade. A specialty is made 
■of Liquid Fillers and Stains. Water Proof Floor Finish, Magic Primer 
and Furniture polishes made by the Star Furnishing Co.. of Dayton, 
C, for which the firm are general agents. They also carry a full line of 
sash weights in all sizes from three to thirty pounds. A full and com- 
plete line of artists' materials and colors is also a feature of the stock. 
The facilities of the house are complete in all particulars, and their 
trade extends throughout a radius of fifty miles from this city. The 
members of the firm are Messrs. W. J. Stone and H. H. Sanders, both 
thoroughly conversant with all the details of the business to which they 
devote their close attention. Those concerned will find their best in- 
terests well served in dealing with this firm, which has inducements 
to offer fully equal, at least, to those of metropolitan trade centers. 




'feil"J'4-^iS|^_ 



BINGHAMTON PRODUCE CO., 

Produce Commission Merchants, 1 87 Water Street. 

Among the later additions to the pro- 
duce branch of trade is the solid and pro- 
gressive house of the Binghamton Produce 
Co., combining energy and experience with 
a complete knowledge of the wants of the 
trade and enjoying the confidence of a wide 
circle of shippers and patrons extending 
throughout a large part of Southern New 
York and Northern Pennsylvania. This en- 
terprise was founded in 1889 by Messrs. W. 
D. and W. F. Cady and R. S. Cotton. Their 
premises comprise a store and basement and 
one upper floor of the new building located 
as above indicated, which afford ample ac- 
commodations for the stock and admirable 
facilites for handling it. An elevator con- 
nects the floors, and a cold-storage room in- 
sures the proper care of perishable products. 
The bucinccs yjt the house, which is of a strictly wholesale character, 
embraces the handling of fresh gathered eggs, butter, cheese and coun- 
try produce as specialties, and no house in Binghamton is in a better 
position to supply the demands of the retail trade in these food supplies. 
'They also handle hay, straw, feed and flour to a limited extent, and are 
always prepared to sell goods on commission, consignments being solic- 
ited for which the highest market prices and quick returns may be con- 
fidently assured. The firm are in daily receipt of the products of first- 
class dairies, which they offer the trade upon favorable terms. The 
house is probably the largest handler of butter and eggs in this market, 
and as one of the most important of the trade facihties of Binghamton, 
having for its sole object the furnishing of food supplies of high quality 
to the public at lowest prices, the Binghamton Produce Co. is fully en- 
titled to the success and prosperity it has achieved in its chosen field of 
enterprise. 




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THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



EUREKA ADVERTISING AGENCY, 

Ackerman Block. 

The Eureka Advertising Agency, 
was organized in 1889. and has since 
built up a large and growing patron- 
age and a hioh reputation among news- 
paper publishers. The agency does a 
general advertising business, placing 
advertisements in any and all newspa- 
pers throughout the United States, at 
the lowest possible rates. The agency 
having no axe of their own to grind 
with the publishers, are enabled to 
quote net cash prices, and the record of 
the past business done assures publish- 
ers of prompt cash payments, which en- 
courages them to afford the agency ad- 
vantages not easily duplicated elsewhere. The agency offers adver- 
tisers all the facilities that modern methods have made advantageous, 
and their advice and experience are promptly put at the disposal of pat- 
rons. The agency also has the exclusive control of all street car adver- 
tising in Binghamton and other cities. This medium of advertising is 
recognized by the leading advertisers of the country as one of the most 
profitable that can be obtained. Mr. G. S. Ackley is the manager of 
the business, to whose progressive ideas and energetic methods its prom- 
inent success is due. The enterprise is a valuable acquisition to the busi- 
ness resources of Binghamton, and fully merits the prominence it has 
attained. 




EMPIRE GRAIN AND ELEVATOR CO. 

Office 192 Chenango St., Elevator and Warehouse, Robinson St. 

One of the most important enterprises of the kind in the State and 
the only one of considerable proportions in this section is the Empire 
Grain and Elevator Co.. of this city, which was organized in June, 1891, 
and has a paid up capital stock of $75,000. This prominent concern may 
be said to have been instituted by reason of the labors of Mr. L. M. 
Wilson, its present secretary, treasurer and general manager, and the 
success of the company since its organization is an evidence of the good 
judgment shown in locating it here. The company's business em- 
braces the buying and shipping of grain, hay and mill-feeds, buckwheat 
grain and also the manufactare of clipped oats. The company are 
heavy buyers of grain in the Western markets, which they supply to 
millers and local dealers in car lots, either direct from the original 
sources of supply without transhipment, or from warehouse here, as 
may be desired. They are also large buyers of buckwheat grain and 
baled hay in this market, the former being disposed of in Illinois, Wis- 
consin and other Western states, as well as the middle and New Eng- 
land states. The chief trade of the company, however, is in supplying 
millers and dealers in New England and the middle states with grain, 
hay and mill-feeds, for which department of the business they enjoy the 
most advanced and modern facilities. The company's elevator and 
warehouse is located in the north-eastern section of the city and is liter- 
ally surrounded by railroad tracks. The building is equipped with a 
100-horse power steam engine, elevating and cleaning machinery, oat 
clippers, power shovels, steam car pullers, separators, etc., and in fact 



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61 



every mechanical contrivance and convenience that would in any way 
serve to save labor or secure promptness in filling- orders About ] 000 feet 
of tracks insures receipt and shipment of stock with a minimum of hand- 
ling, and a sixty-ton track scale insures correct weights. The capacity 
of the elevator is 50,000 bushels of grain and the warehouse furnishes 




storage for 5.000 tons of hay, and mill-feeds, and this stock. supi)lem- 
mented by large shipments daily in transit, insures the prompt fulfill- 
ment of all orders. By reason of its central location, and being upon 
the main highway from the west to tlie east, Binghamton ofi'ers the 
greatest advantages to the trade as a source of supply for the above 



63 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



named staples, and the Empire Grain and Elevator Co. has developed 
these advantages in the interest of their customers. and made it possible 
for the trade to use this market at a saving over that of any other in the 
East. This company lays down grain and other products throughout 
the circuit of its trade, with greater promptness and frequently at less 
prices than it is possible to obtain it from more distant markets. A 
special feature of the business of the company is the manufacture of 
clipped oats, which are in demand by the trade and consumers. Mr. 
L. M. Wilson is assisted in the management of the business by Mr. T. 
H. Wilson, Associate Manager, and no enterprise in the city gives 
greater promise of continued growth and prosperity than does the Em- 
pire Grain and Elevator Co. Correspondence from the trade is solicited 
and prompt replies and quotations may be assured. This city is to be 
congratulated upon being the headquarters of so prominent and valua- 
ble an institution as this, which by its advanced facilities and accom- 
modations is a credit alike to its management and this community. 



LLOYD & GARDINER, 

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in Confectionery, 2 15 State Street. 




The enterprise of Messrs. Lloyd & Gardiner is the chief representa- 
tive of the confectionery branch of the wholesale trade of this city and 
is the only exclusively wholesale confectionery house in the city, such 
others as do any jobbing, being also retailers. This house was founded 
in 1885 by Lloyd & Shrnnpton. the present firm, composed of John E. 
Lloyd and C. L. Gardiner, having succeeded to the business January 1, 
1890. The premises occupied are comprised in a four-story and base- 
ment brick building, the ground floor being utilized for salesrooms and 
office purposes and the upper floors for manufacturing and surplus 
stock. The equipment of the establishment embraces all necessary 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 65 

appliances, no power machinery being used, the products being- all 
hand-made confectionery. The firm manufactures a full and complete 
line of fine and medium confectionery, including some penny goods, 
making a specialty of fine moulded cream goods, which are unsurpassed 
for quality, handsome appearance and attractiveness. Another 
specialty is fruit tablets, packed in glass jars, which for fine flavor and 
high quality are in the highest repute with first-class retail trade, drug- 
gists and confectioners generally. The firm pack their own goods under 
their trade-mark of " Wild Rose." which has become a well-recognized 
guarantee of superior quality. Only the best ingredients, pure sugar, 
flavorings, etc. are used and all the products are guaranteed to be ex- 
actly as represented. Besides the goods of their own production, the 
firm carry a complete line of candies, confectionery, chocolate goods, 
penny goods, novelties, chewing gum, etc., which are procured direct 
from the largest and most noted manufacturers of the country and are 
offered to the trade at manufacturers' prices. They also handle a full 
line of foreign and domestic nuts. The trade of the house extends 
throughout this State and Pennsylvania within a hundred miles of 
Binghamton, and four travelling salesmen represent the house on the 
road. Notwithstanding the keen competition of New York and other 
markets, the "Wild Rose" brand of confectionery produced by this 
house is to be found in the hands of the principal retailers of this sec- 
tion, and the particular excellence and attractiveness of these goods are 
annually increasing the demand for them. The members of the firm 
are both experienced and practical manufacturers and they devote their 
close personal attention to all the details of the business in the interest 
of excellence of product. The extent, variety and character of the 
entire stock of this house merit the attention of critical and prudent 
buyers and the trade will find upon forming relations with Messrs. 
Lloyd & Gardmer many advantages impossible to procure elsewhere in. 
this market. 



H. L. BUSH & CO., 

Cigar Manufacturers, 24-9 Water Street. 

The cigar manufactory of Messrs. H. L. Bush & Co., established in 
1889, has since come to be an important factor of the industry in this 
city. The firm occupy commodious premises in the building located as 
above indicated, where they give steady employment to twenty cigar 
makers and annually turn out about 850,000 fine and medium grade 
cigars. Their goods which are chiefly designed for fine retail trade are 
also in demand by leading jobbers and are distributed to the trade 
throughout New York and Pennsylvania principally. Their leading 
brands are "Governors," "Refined" and "La Rosa" in five cent cigars, 
and ••Local." " Honor" and •"The Hand Made" in ten cent cigars. 
These are particularly popular with consumers and the trade, and are 
fully maintained to the high standard originally set for them. No 
power machinery is used and all the goods produced are strictly hand- 
made cigars and as such are confidently recommended to the trade and 
consumers as possessing every attribute for perfect satisfaction. The 
members of the firm are Messrs. H. L. and A. J. Bush, both progressive 
manufacturers, who devote their close personal attention to all the 
operations of the business, in the interest of a superior product. The 
success and continued growth of the business have been matters of 
favorable comment both in the trade and this community and every 
promise of future expansion is given. 



64 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

W. D. STEVENS, 

Mason Contractor and Builder, 36 Susquehanna Street. 

Mr. W. D. Stevens began operations in 1869 and during the interval 
since elapsed has erected a large number of the principal churches, bus- 
iness blocks, manufacturing establishments and private residences of 
Binghamton as well as a large part of the central business structures in 
Oneonta. For a number of years he confined his attention to mason 
work only, but of late years has undertaken the entire work of building, 
including brick, stone and frame buildings. His present facilities em- 
brace a wood working shop, which is a two-story brick building 80x175 
feet in dimensions, which is equipped with all necessary improved ma- 
chinery and tools, operated by a 50-horse power steam engine and 
capable of turning out everything in the way of builders" finish, after 
the most approved methods and at a minimum cost. Planing, carving 
and turning are also accomplished here for the trade at reasonable 
prices. The energies of the house are devoted to the erection of all 
kinds of public and private buildings and also include all kinds of job- 
bing and the production of stair and cabinet work. Among the princi- 
pal Ijuildings erected by Mr. Stevens, either in whole or in part, are the 
High School, Weed's tannery, Hamlin block. Ackerman block. Pope & 
Johnson block, Dunk block. Cady block. Tabernacle church. Congrega- 
tional church, Hanunond block, Westcott block. Rich block. Lester 
block. Stone & Jenks' block and many others. These are but a few of the 
prominent exemplifications of his skill and ability as a builder. 



C. A. CORBIN, 

Wholesale Dealer and Shipper of Eggs, 1 52 Main St. 

The facilities afforded by Binghamton for the transaction of an en- 
terprise such as that forming the caption of this article, by reason of 
the numerous and far-reaching lines of railway centering here and the 
contiguity of the city to unsurpassed producing localities are particu- 
larly favorable, and have resulted in the acquisition by Mr. C. A. Cor- 
bin of a very extensive business, which, while also being an unique one 
is annually increasing in the volume of its transactions. Mr. Corbin 
founded his enterprise in 1872 at Otego, N. Y.. and removed its head- 
quarters to this city in 1889, and he also operates branch packing houses 
at Otego. Unadilla, Bloomville, Trout Creek, Afton, Morris. Canton and 
Hartwick. The facilities of the house embrace storage warehouses at 
the several receiving points, and in this city alone tliere is a storage ca- 
pacity for half a million dozen eggs. The operations of the business 
embrace the collection and the purchase of eggs from the producers in 
this state and Pennsylvania and their shipment to New York city, a 
specialty being made of strictly fancy fresh eggs. Eggs are also packed 
in lime and stored to meet the demand at seasons when the supply of 
fresh eggs is limited. During the season the daily outlay for eggs 
reaches the sum of $1,000, and the aggregate results in an annual turn- 
over of very large proportions The greatest care is taken in the selec- 
tion of stock, and the connections of the house with producers are such 
that the sources of supply are practically unlimited. The trade of the 
house is entirely with New York city and daily shipments are made to 
this market. Mr. Corbin is an enterprising and pi'ogressive business 
man, and since his location here has closely allied himself with the com- 
ift mercial development of Binghamton. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 65 

C. A. SMITH, 

Cigar Manufacturer, North Depot Street. 

As a leading- representative of the cigar manufacturing trade we 
quote with pleasure the enterprise of Mr. C. A. Smith, which was orig- 
inally established in 188G at Uneonta, and was removed to this city in 
LS88." The factory and salesrooms are located in the five-story building, 
opposite the "Erie" passenger station, where every improved mechani- 
cal facility is at hand for the economical production of fine seed and 
Havana cigars, power being obtained from a 20-horse power steam en- 
gine and a -iO-horse power boiler, and employment is given to sixty 
skilled workmen. All the operations of the factory are conducted un- 
der the personal supervision of the proprietor, who is an experienced 
manufacturer and an expert judge of leaf tobacco, and has been active- 
ly engaged in the business for the past fifteen years. The result is a 
line of medium and fine cigars that have no superiors in the market and 
are in active demand both by the trade and consumers. The goods are 
produced chiefly under registered brands of the house, among which we 
note ••Havana Bouquet."* '"Santa Clara." "El Cometa," "Crown Jewel," 
••Elkoe," "Big Gun." •'899," ••Red Skin," "Happy Coon," "Gold Anchor," 
''Big 23." "Cherry Ripe." ''Liberty" and "Yum Yum." each of which 
has a high reputation and great popularitj^ in wide-spread localities 
throughout the United States generally as far West as the Pacific coast, 
sales being made almost exclusively to jobbers, three travelling sales- 
men representing the house on the road. The principal and leading 
brand of the house, however, is the ''C. A. S. Bouquet." a strictly fine 
hand-made Havana filled cigar, which is confidently recommended as 
the best ten cent cigar on the market. It is widely known for its fine 
natural aroma, reliability and uniformity and for genuine merit is fully 
entitled to be classed as the finest made in this market. The annual 
out-put of the house is about 2,000,000 cigars, and the volume of pro- 
duction is annually increasing, necessitating frequent increase of facil- 
ities. The establishment is in every way entitled to the confidence of 
the trade and ever since its advent here it has been a leading represent- 
ative of the cigar manufacturing industry of Binghamton. 



GAYLORD'S STORAGE WAREHOUSE. 

1 78 State Street. Branch Office, 78 Court St. 

The above named enterprise is an important adjunct to the com- 
mercial resources and conveniences of Binghamton. The warehouse is 
a four-story and basement brick building, 25x125 feet in dimensions, 
which is provided with an elevator connecting all the fioors, and in 
every respect affords the public with all necessary facilities for the 
storage and safe keeping of merchandise, furniture, pianos, pictures, 
carriages, gold and silver plate and goods of all descriptions at reason- 
able rates. A special feature of the enterprise is that the management 
insures all goods for its patrons free. A large covered van for moving- 
furniture is also one of the facilities of the house, and this van may also 
be secured for removing furniture to any desired place. This warehouse 
was first thrown open to the public in 1888 and has since proved the 
wisdom of its inception by the large patronage it has received from the 
community. The management of the business is in the hands of 
Messrs. A. D. Gaylord and H. J. Gay lord. The former has been actively 
engaged in the packing of leaf tobacco in this city for the past quarter 
of a century and the latter is now and long has been the leading real 
estate dealer of this city and is also president of the Security Mutual 
Life Association of Binghamton. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



HEATH & HARRIS, 

Machinists, 227 and 229 Water St. 

This business was instituted in 1882 by Knapp & Heath, the present 
firm succeeding to the business in 1890. The firm occupy a two-story 
brick building which is fully equipped with all necessary machinery 
operated by a 15-horse power steam engine, employment being given to 
a number of skilled mechanics. The products of the house embrace 
improved foot-power lathes, which have a high reputation in the trade 
and are in demand throughout the United States. Other products are 
milling machines, improved iron shapers and vises. Besides the manu- 
facture of the above, the firm do a regular jobbing and repairing busi- 
ness, for which they are prepared with all necessary facilities. Any- 
thing in the line of special machinery or tools is constructed to order 
and inquiries are invited on this class of machine work. Both mem- 
bers of this firm, Robert Heath and J. Fred Harris, are thoroughly 
practical machinists who take an active part in all the operations of 
their business. 



HULL, GRUMMOND & CO., 

Manufacturers of Cigars, 220 Water St. 

The manufacture of 
cigars is the leading in- 
dustrial interest of 
B i n g h a m t o n, an d 
among the most cred- 
itable establishments 
devoted to their pro- 
duction isthat of 
Messrs. Hull, Grum- 
mond & Co., which has 
developed a large and 
annually incre a s i n g 
trad e thatextends 
throughout the United 
States generally. This 
house is also one of the 
oldest of the larger es- 
tablishments manufac- 
turing cigars, having 
been originally found- 
ed in 1874 by Mr. John 
Hull, Jr., the present 
firm having succeeded 
to the business in 1886. 
The factory of the firm 
is a large four-story 
and basement brick 
building, which is ful- 
ly equipped with all 
necessary improved 
machinery, including 
s t r i p p ing, bunching 
and scrap machines, operated by a 2o-iiorse power steam engine and 
supplied with elevator and all other modern facilities for the economi- 
cal production of the goods and the prompt fulfillment of orders. The 
products embrace a large variety of medium and fine domestic cigars 
ranging in price by the case from $20 to $G0 per thousand, the output of 




THE CITY OF BINGHAM TON. 67 

the factory ranging from ten to fifteen millions annually, employment 
being given to from four hundred to five hundred male and female 
operatives. No very low grade cigars are made, and sales are made to 
the jobbing trade exclusively. The individual members of the firm 
are Messrs. John Hull. Jr., Charles A. Hull and Fred W. Grummond, 
all progressive and enterprising business men, closely identified with 
the industrial advance of Binghamton. 



KNAPP & SON,, 

Machinists, 1 96 State St. 



Among the manifold manufacturing industries which distinguish 
Binghamton as a prominent trade center, there is no more useful branch 
of production carried on here than that which engages the attention of 
Messrs. Knapp & Son. This enterprise was originally begun by Mr. 
William Knapp in 18(J9, the present firm having been formed in 1885, 
after several changes in the proprietorship of the business. The prem- 
ises occupied for the business are embraced in three floors of the build- 
ing located as above indicated, and are equipped with a full complement 
of machinists' tools and machinery operated by steam power, employ- 
ment being given to an average force of seven skilled artisans. The firm 
are builders of all kinds of special and general machinery, steam engines, 
etc., and also do a large jobbing and repairing business for local manufac- 
turers. They undertake the manufacture of any mechanical device in 
brass and iron, besides the manufacture of special machinery and tools, 
shaftings, hangers, pulleys , etc. They turn out on contract large numbers 
of lubricators, damper regulators, water regulators and other specialties 
for the Hoffman Lubricating Oil Co. of this city. The members of the 
firm are both practical and expert machinists and engineers, and pos- 
sess a thorough knowledge of the varied details of the business over 
which they preside. 



W. F. RAHILLY & CO., 

Wholesale Dealers in Wines, Liquors, Etc., 1 3S Washington Street. 

The enterprise of Messrs. W. F. Rahilly & Co. among its contempo- 
raries occupies an eminent position in the liquor trade here. It was 
originally established in 1870 by John W. McTighe, the present firm as- 
suming control in 1890. The premises occupied comprise a well 
appointed and convenient store at the above address where ma}^ be 
found a large stock of foreign and domestic wines and liquors of the 
choicest selected quality. While a general line is handled, specialties are 
made of the following celebrated brands of whiskey, viz : Hermitage. 
Beaver Run, Finch's Golden Wedding, Old Crow, Mt. Vernon and Duffy's 
Pure Malt. These are all goods of tried and national reputation, pure 
in quality, delicious in flavor, wholesome and reliable. In addition to the 
above a very fine stock of American and imported gins, rums, brandies, 
whiskies, champagnes, clarets, ports, sherries, Bass ale, etc., are carried 
which have been specially selected for the trade of this house. Alto- 
gether the facilities of the concern are fully equal in every respect to 
those of dealers in any city in the country. The trade of the house ex- 
tends throughout a wide range of territory embracing mainly Southern 
New York and Northern Pennsylvania. The individual members of 
the firm are Messrs. W. F. Rahilly and F. E. McTighe, both of whom 
are thoroughly experienced in the business to which they give their 
close personal attention. 



68 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



JOHN RAY CLARKE CO., 

Wholesale Dealers In Hats, Caps, Straw Goods, Robes and Blankets, Cor. Henry 

St. and Commercial Ave. 

This house 
was originally 
established by 
the late John 
Ray Clarke, the 
present coni- 
p a ny having 
been organized 
in 1891, since the 
demise of the 
f oun d e r. The 
w a r e h o ii se of 
the company is 
embraced in a 
handsome new 
five-story build- 
ing, erected in 
1890, which cov- 
ers an area of 
80x90 feet. The 
building is fur- 
nished with all 
m o d e r n i m- 
provements, in- 
eluding an 
elevator and is one of the most complete commercial edifices in the 
city, and is also notable for its substantial and graceful architecture. 
The'stock carried is large and well selected and embraces hats and caps 
of all kinds, shapes and styles of the ruling fashion, as well as straw 
goods in season, and a complete line of sleigh-robes, plush and wool lap- 
robes of their own manufacture, and horse blankets, no other concern 
in the state, outside of New York, showing so complete and varied a 
stock. All goods are procured direct from manufacturers both at home 
and abroad in large quantities, and are offered at prices which com- 
mand the most favorable attention. Eight assistants in the warehouse 
and ten travelling salesmen are employed in the several departments of 
the business, and the trade of the house extends throughout New York, 
JPennsylvania. Ohio and Michigan. 




JULIUS P. MORGAN, 

Manufacturer of Cigars, 1 and 3 Carroll St. 

The extensive cigar manufacturing establishment, now and since 
March, 1891, under the proprietorship of Mr. Julius P. Morgan, was 
originally established in April, 1888, by Messrs. Schubmehl. Cox & Co. 
The factorv is comprised in a three-story brick building, which is fully 
equipped with all late improved machinery, operated by a 20-horse 
power steam engine, and furnishes employment to one hundred and 
twentv-five skilled operatives. The products of the factory embrace a 
variety of brands of fine and medium grade domestic cigars, which are 
produced after the most improved methods from the best qualities of 
leaf tobacco, and while in no particular can they be classed as cheap in 
the sense of inferiority, they are offered to the trade at lowest possible 
prices considering the quality. Among the chief brands, of which 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



69 



there are many, we note: '"Our Veterans," "Scarlet Letter" and 
"Oaken Buckets" in five-cent cigars, and "Brook Trout" and "La Glad- 
iosa" in ten-cent cigars, which have had a phenomenal sale and are 
justly popular with the trade and smokers wherever introduced. The 
trade of the house extends generally throughout the United States and 
is with jobbers exclusively, a number of travelling salesmen being con- 
stantly on the road. Mr. Morgan, the proprietor of this enterprise, 
though a recent accession to the industry, is a gentleman of large and 
varied business experience and attainments, and is prominently con- 
nected with other important enterprises in this city. He has surrounded 
himself in his present enterprise with able and progressive lieutenants, 
and has not only succeeded in maintaining the large and growing trade 
of the house, but has also extended the scope of its operations and aug- 
mented the demand for its products. 




THE L. BOLLES HOE AND TOOL CO., 

Sole Manufacturers of Bolles' CastSteel Field and Garden Hoes, Office and 
Works 1 24-, 1 26 and 1 28 Walnut Street. 

The enterprise of The 
L. Bolles Hoe and Tool Co. 
is one of the oldest of Bing- 
hamton's industrial enter- 
prises, having been origi- 
nally established in 1840, 
and its products having 
been in the market for over 
half a century are every- 
where recognized as the 
highest standard for quality 
and superiority. The com- 
pany's plant is located in 
the western part of the city 
and adjoins the railroad system, thus affording the most complete facil- 
ities for the economical receipt of raw materials and the shipment of 
the finished product. The works consist of a series of brick buildings, 
which are fully equipped with all necessary machinery and tools, oper- 
ated by a 150-horse power engine and employment is given to forty 
skilled workmen. The products consist of Bolles' celebrated cast steel 
field and garden hoes, mortar or street hoes, handled planters' hoes^ 
handled cotton hoes, socket cotton hoes, weeding hoes, riveted hoes, 
etc. These are made in various numbers and sizes from the best mate- 
rials by experienced and skilled workmen and after the most approved 
patterns, original with this company. These hoes have no equals in the 
market for high quality and finish and the trade-mark of the company 
is a guarantee of perfection. From the inception of the business, the 
distinguishing feature of this company's operations has been the supe- 
riority of their goods. Thus the favor of the trade and consumers has 
been attained and a large and prosperous business created which ex- 
tends throughout the United States, besides which their goods are also 
exported to foreign countries. The officers of the company are Messrs. 
J. T. Whitmore, President: E. N. Abbott, Secretary, and J. W. Manier, 
Treasurer, who give the management of the business their energetic at- 
tention. Mr. Manier is also President of the Susquehanna Valley Bank. 
The enterprise is an important factor in the make-up of the city's indus- 
tries, and with a record of a half century for the production of the 
best goods of the kind in the market is fully entitled to the confidence 
of the trade it has so long enjoyed. 



70 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

BENNETT BROTHERS, 

Manufacturers of Cigar Boxes, South Street. 

This house was originally instituted in 1884 by A. R. Wilkinson & 
Co.. the present firm having succeeded to the business in 1889. Their 
facilities embrace a well-equipped factory operated by water power and 
supplied with all the late improved machinery known to the trade, in- 
cluding sawing and planing machines, nailing machines, etc. The firm 
manufacture all kinds of cigar boxes from the best materials and in the 
highest style of workmanship and. having all modern facilities, they 
are turned*^out at the minimum cost. From ten to fifteen employes are 
required in the business and the trade of the house, while being largely 
with local manufacturers, also extends to all the neighboring towns and 
is annuallv increasing in volume. The members of the firm, Messrs. 
J. M. and W. E. Bennett, are both practical men at the business and 
give all the details of manufacture their close personal supervision in 
the interest of superior products. 

H. J. GAYLORD, 

Real Estate, 78 Court St. 

The old-established and representative real estate agency of Mr. H. 
J. Gaylord, which is the most prominent enterprise of the kind in the 
city, has done much to advance the corporate growth and business in- 
terests of Binghamton, inviting men of capital here and at the same 
time offering inducements to residents to own homes or purchase lots 
for manufacturing, mercantile or residence purposes. This agency is sec- 
ond to none of its kind in the State, either in facilities fordoing business, 
experienced management or reputation for reliability and fair dealing, 
and has for many years been actively engaged in developing Bingham- 
ton's industrial and commercial growth, and the benefits conferred upon 
the city through the energy and enterprise of its founder and proprie- 
tor. Mr. H. J, Gaylord, have been many and valuable. Mr. Gaylord 
conducts a general real estate business, buying, selling and exchanging 
real property of all kinds both on his own account and on commission 
for others. He also negotiates mortgage loans, furnishes buyers of lots 
with money to erect houses, when desired, upon terms that are most 
liberal, and furnishes opportunities to industrious working men and oth- 
ers to own their own homes, which no prudent man can afford to neg- 
lect. He takes full charge of estates and property for non-residents, 
collects rentals, pays taxes and transacts all business relating to real 
estate at a moderate compensation, and his experience and standing in 
the business community are such as to justify the most implicit confi- 
dence of clients. Mr. Gaylord has been instrumental in laying out and 
disposing of a number of valuable sub-divisions and additions to the 
building sites in the most desirable sections of the city, many of 
which have been sold and built upon, and others equally desirable 
still remaining. Mr. Gaylord is a broadgauge man, of comprehensive 
views, thoroughly identified with Binghamton in the best sense, and ex- 
tremely liberal toward all who would invest in the soil and thus become 
permanently attached to the city. His suite of offices is centrally lo- 
cated, and headquarters for real estate investors in Binghamton. A 
hearty welcome is extended here to all strangers and investigators of 
the advantages of Binghamton, and all inquiries will be answered and 
information furnished to visitors. Correspondence from capitalists, in- 
vestors, and those seeking a profitable and advantageous location for a 
home or industry is invited, and to such is offered the full benefit of the 
sagacity, knowledge and business experience of the management. 



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71 



BAYLESS PAPER CO., 

Manufacturers of Book, News and Manilla Paper, Binghamton, N. Y. 

The Bayless Paper Co. was instituted in 1882 and has since devel- 
oped a large and annually increasing trade extending throughout New 
England, the ]kiddle and "Central Western States. The company's plant, 
located in the north-eastern section of the city is most extensive in char- 
acter and complete in equipment. The buildings are several in number 
and are adjoined on all sides by the tracks of the railroad system of the 
city, affording the most complete facilities for the receipt of raw mate- 
rials and the shipment of finished products, cars being loaded and un- 
loaded direct at the doors. Large yards for storing wood from which 
wood-pulp is made, are also utilized, and the machinery and appliances 
in operation are of the most modern character, representing all the im- 
provements that have been made, during recent years, in the art of pa- 
per making. Two steam engines with a combined force of 400-horse 
power serve to operate the mechanical equipment and employment is 
furnished to about thirty workmen. The company make about 3| to 4 
tons of wood pulp daily and turn out from five to seven tons of paper 
per day, the quantity' varying with the kind of paper made. Book, 
news and manilla paper are produced which may be said to represent 
the very acme of perfection in their various grades. The proprietors of 
the enterprise are Messrs. Geo. C. and F. J. Bayless. 



BINGHAMTON BLACKBOARD CO., 

Manufacturers of Blackboards, 9 Ferry Street. 

This enterprise, of which Mr. L. A. 
Ash is the founder and proprietor, 
though instituted so recently as March 
1891. has already built up a large trade 
that extends throughout a large part of 
the Eastern, Southern and Western 
States and is gradually extending its 
territory. The manufacturing facilities 
of the company embrace a two-story 
factory, which is fully equipped with 
all necessary machinery, operated by 
water power. The products embrace a 
variety of sizes and styles of Portable 
Blackboards, which may be used for 
many different purposes. They make 
excellent bulletins for newspapers, rail- 
roads, ticket offices, merchants and for 
business purposes generally, while for 
the home they prove an inexhaustible 
source of amusement for children, and 
at the same time afford instruction as 
well, in drawing, writing and figures. 
The styles made are neat and attractive in design, durable and well 
finished, and the material used for the surface of the blackboard is the 
most perfect article of the kind in the market, making a smooth and 
durable blackboard that will not crack or become otherwise useless. 
The company's blackboards are for sale by the stationery and school 
supply trade, and dealers in fancy goods, etc. , and by reason of the ex- 
cellent shipping facilities, and prices at which lumber is obtained at 
Binghamton they are placed on the market at prices that command at- 
tention. Mr. Asii. the proprietor of the enterprise is a practical man at 
the business, to which he gives his close personal attention. 




72 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

CRANDAL, STONE & CO., 

Manufacturers of Carriage Hardware and Trimmings, Office and Works 33© 

Court Street. 

The enterprise of Messrs. Crandal, Stone & Co.. was originally 
founded in 1871 by Messrs. John Doane & Co.. and it came into the pos- 
session of the present firm in 1881. since which time the business has 
been largely increased and the scope and field of its operations mate- 
rially extended. The firm's plant is located in the eastern section of the 
city, and adjoins the railroad system, thereby affording all facilities. 
The works of the hrm. which were erected in 1887. are of the most com- 
plete and modern character and are fully equipped with all the latest 
improved special machinery and tools known to the trade. The main 
building is a large four-story brick structure, besides which there are 
minor buildings, and a oU-horse power engine provides the motive force 
for the machinery, employment being given to about one hundred work- 
men. The firm are extensive manufacturers of carriage hardware and 
trimmings of various descriptions, making a specialty of a medium 
grade of goods, which however, are the best of their class. Many of 
the firm's products are of their own invention, protected by patents and 
are the best of the kind in the market. The firm publish a large and 
handsomely illustrated (.catalogue and price list, which goes exhaust- 
ively into the subject of their products and which will be forwarded to 
the trade upon application. In connection with their business, the firm 
maintain a fully equipped electro-plating plant, where all their own 
goods are silver-plated by themselves, and in fact, their works are 
among the most self-contained of any of the kind in the country. The 
trade of the house extends throughout the United States and Canada, 
and their goods are also exported to all parts of the civilized world. 
The members of the firm are Messrs. G. L. Crandal, C. M. and W. H. 
Stone and C. E. Titchener, all prominent and well-known residents of 
the city, who are adding much to the high reputation Binghamton en- 
joys as a manufacturing city. 



S. E. OFFENHEISER, 

Wholesale Fruit and Commission IVIerciiant, 132 State Street and 25 Com- 
mercial Avenue. 

Largely engaged in this department of commerce is the well-known 
house of Mr. S. E. Offenheiser, which he established here in 1885, he 
having previously carried on a similar business in New York city for 
twelve years. The premises occupied are comprised in two floors and a 
basement which afford ample storage room for the stock which embraces 
all kinds of foreign and domestic fruits in their seasons, and includes or- 
anges and lemons, peaches, bananas, grapes, berries of all kinds, mel- 
ons, dried fruits and nuts, and southern early vegetables and produce. 
The facilities of the house embrace intimate relations with shippers and 
producers throughout the country and the principal importers at the 
seaports, and the choicest products of the market are constantly bein^ 
received. The trade of the house extends throughout a large section of 
Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania, along the several 
lines of railoads centering at Binghamton and is annually increasing in 
volume. Seven assistants and one travelling salesman are employed 
by the house and the prompt fulfillment of all orders may be assured. 
The reputation of this house for reliability, quick sales and prompt re- 
turns to shippers is a wide-spread and honorable one, and consignments 
of anything in this line is solicited for which liberal advances will be 
made. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 75 

F. B. RICHARDS & CO., 

Cigar Manufacturers, 1 1 and 1 3 North Depot Street. 

The firm whose name forms the caption of this article, while not 
being such large producers as some others located here, has become a 
well-known and highly esteemed one in this branch of manufacture, by 
reason of the high character of its out-put. It was founded in 1887, 
since which time a trade has been established that extends throughout 
New York and Pennsylvania and is annually increasing in volume. 
The premises occupied are comprised in a part of the extensive five-story 
and basement brick building, where at present about seventy-five skilled 
hand workmen are employed, which number, however, will shortly be 
largely increased. No machinery is used in making cigars, the products- 
being all strictly hand-made and designed for first-class retail trade. 
The average out-put of the factory is about 3,000,000 cigars annually . 
and of these fully two-thirds are made to be retailed at ten cents each. 
Four travelling salesmen are employed by the firm and sales are made 
almost exclusively direct to the retail trade. Among the chief brands 
of the firm are the "F. B. R.." "Bouquet," "Cuba Mail," ''Special 
Drive," "Princesa," "Drummers Dream" and "Brotherhoods," all of 
which are in marked favor with discriminating dealers and consumers. 
In fact the aim of this firm has always been to make a first-class cigar, 
worthy the good opinion of smokers and to scrupulously maintain their 
brands. The members of the firm are both widely and well-known to 
the trade as gentlemen of pushing and progressive methods and honor- 
able in all their dealings. 



C. D. MIDDLEBROOK&Co., 

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Lumber and Shingles, Cor. State and Lewis Sts> 

This enterprise is the largest establishment of the kind in the city, 
and has long been an important factor in supplying lumber to builders- 
and manufacturers in this section, as well as controllmg a large whole- 
sale trade that extends throughout a considerable part of Southern New 
York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The business was first instituted 
in 1869 by W. W. Rope & Co., of which firm Mr.»C. D. Middlebrook was 
a member, though at that time he was a resident of Oswego, N. Y., 
where he conducted a similar enterprise. In 1885, the present firm suc- 
ceeded to the business, since which time the scope and operations of the 
house have been largely augmented. The premises of the firm cover an 
area of GO x 250 feet, upon which is erected a brick storage warehouse, 
57 x ::iOO feet in dimensions, partly two, and partly three stories high, 
the whole affording the best possible facilities for the receipt and ship- 
ment of lumber and the prompt fulfillment of orders. Open driveways 
permit teams to enter the buildings and load and unload while all the 
principal stock being housed insures its perfect condition. The stock 
carried embraces all kinds of builders' lumber, shingles, doors, windows, 
blinds, mouldings, etc., all of which are procured direct from the orig- 
inal sources of supply in large quantities and upon the most favorable 
terms. The firm carry the largest stock of lumber and lumber products 
in this vicinity, and they are enabled to offer to the trade and consum- 
ers inducements in quality and prices difficult to procure elsewhere. 
The members of the firm, Messrs. C. D. Middlebrook and R. R. Gris- 
wold, are both gentlemen of long experience in the lumber trade, and 
both are closely identified w-ith the growth of this city. 



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THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



BINGHAMTON WIRE WORKS, 

David Campbell, Manufacturer of Plain and Ornamental Wire Work, 1 4-0 

State Street. 

The Binghamton Wire Works has long been a leading representa- 
tive of this industry in this section. It was established in 1881 and oc- 
cupies commodious premises at the above indicated address. The plant 
is equipped with all necessary tools and appliances and furnishes em- 
ployment to a number of skilled workmen. The works have long held 
a high reputation for the superiority of their out-put. and the trade of 
the house extends throughout a large section of Southern and Central 
New York and Northern Pennsylvania. The products of the Bingham- 
ton Wire Works include chairs, bank and office railings of every de- 
scription, flower stands, settees, florists' designs, coal and sand screens, 
wire cloth, wire window and door screens, trellis frames for gardens, 
spark arresters, wire fencing, poultry netting, etc., and all kinds of 
special wire work to order; the facilities of the house for the manufac- 
ture of anything in its line being unsurpassed in the Southern tier. Mr. 
David Campbell, the proprietor of this useful enterprise, is a practical 
man at the business to which he gives his close personal attention, and 
he is widely known in the trade as a liberal and progressive business 
man. 

BARTLETT & CO., 

TVIanufacturers of Sash, Doors and Blinds, Etc., Office 4-3 Collier St. 

A leading and 
most important 
concern devoted to 
this branch of pro- 
duction is the wide- 
1}' -known house of 
Messrs. Bartlett & 
Co., which is the 
direct successor 
and outgrowth of 
the enterprise orig- 
inally founded in 
1845 by Isaac L. 
Bartlett, father of 
the senior member 
of the present firm. 
About 1861 the bus- 
iness was known 
under the title of 
Blanchard, Bartlett & Co. ; in 1875 Bartlett Bros, succeeded to the busi- 
ness and in 1886 the present firm was organized and is composed of 
Arthur S. Bartlett, Emily B. Bartlett, L. B. Smith and E. B. Clark. 
The manufacturing plant covers the greater part of a block and has a 
frontage on three streets, the lot being 180x285 feet in dimensions. The 
main building is a three-story and basement brick structure, besides 
which there are several minor buildings, dry houses, engine house, 
storage buildings, office, etc. The works are fully equipped with all 
the latest improved machinery known to the trade, are operated by two 
steam engines having a combined power of 250-horse power and em- 
ployment is furnished to about 135 workmen. The firm also have a 
yard for storing lumber located elsewhere which covers about four 
acres, and where they carry a large stock of all kinds of lumber both to 
supply their factory and tlie local trade. The business of the firm em- 




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THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 75 

braces the manufacture of sash, doors, blinds and builders' trimmings, 
and large quantities of these products are turned out and shipped in 
all directions, notably to Philadelphia and New England as well as to 
near-by towns and villages. The firm procure all their lumber and raw 
materials in large quantities direct from the original sources of supply 
and having unexcelled facilities for manufacturing are enabled to offer 
the trade inducements both in quality and price that insure them a con- 
stantly increasing demand for their products. Great care is exercised 
that all wood used in their products should be thoroughly seasoned and 
to accomplish this a large stock of lumber is kept so as to be maturing, 
besides which recourse is also had to dry-kilns which greatly expedites 
matters. The trade of this house forms a large element in the makeup 
of Binghamton's industrial activity, and the management is energetic, 
enterprising and thoroughly alive to the wants of the trade both at 
home and abroad, uniting the highest qualities of the skilled manufac- 
turer and the pushing merchant. 



THE STURTEVANT LARRABEE CO., 

Manufacturers of Carriages & Sleighs, Charles St. 

The Sturtevant Larrabee Co. was incorporated in August of 
the present year and succeeded to the business founded in 1883 by 
Messrs. Kingman, Sturtevant & Larrabee. Their manufacturing plant 
is located in the western section of the city and adjoins the tracks of 
the two trunk line railroads traversing this section of the State, thus 
affording the company the most advanced facilities for the economical 
receipt of raw materials and the shipment of the finished products. 
The plant covers upwards of an acre, upon which are erected two 
spacious four-story factories with several minor structures for storage 
and other purposes, the whole having a floorage area of 75,000 square 
feet and employment being given to about 150 skilled workmen. The 
products of the house include fine light carriages, pleasure and road 
wagons, surreys, etc., and the capacity of the establishment is about 
10,000 vehicles annually. The company's sleighs and cutters have long 
enjoyed the highest favor with the trade and public throughout the 
United States and Canada and the result has been an annually increas- 
ing demand for their products. The company manufactures their 
vehicles complete from the raw materials and with their superior facili- 
ties they are enabled to cheapen the cost and at the same time maintain 
the highest quality. Their carriages are especially noteworthy for 
lightness combined with strength, beauty of design, good workmanship 
and fine finish. The company issue handsomely illustrated, descriptive 
catalogues of their vehicles which will be forwarded upon application. 
From these we note road wagons. Concord wagons, Brewster surreys, 
Tuxedo double spindle wagons, runabout wagons, phaetons, buggies, 
market wagons, grocery delivery wagons, etc.. finished in many styles 
and all guaranteed first-class in material and workmanship and war- 
ranted, with fair usage, for one year. Those who have used the sleighs 
and cutters made by this house will feel no hesitancy in accepting their 
carriages, since the same care in manufacturing, which enabled them 
to build up the largest sleigh trade in the country from a small begin- 
ning, is exercised in producing carriages that satisfy all the reasonable 
demands of the trade and public, The management of the business is 
in the hands of Messrs. O. Britton. pres., H. Chester Larrabee, vice-pres., 
F. T. Newell, treas., and J. W. Sturtevant, secy., gentlemen of ex- 
perience and enterprise and closely identified with the growth and 
prosperity of Binghamton's industrial supremacy. 



76 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 




STAR ELECTRIC CO., 

Electrical Engineers and Contractors, Cor. State and Henry Streets. 

The Star Electric Co. was organ- 
ized October 1, 1891, and succededto 
the business originally instituted in 
1887 by the Otis Electrical Supply Co. 
The company is under the able man- 
agement of Messrs. M. M. Jacobs and 
F. G. Winter, who are both enterpris- 
ing and progressive business men and 
thoroughly proficient in all matters 
relating to the application of the elec- 
trical current for architectural and 
other purposes. They are prepared 
with all facilities to undertake the 
construction and supply of all elec- 
trical contrivances for the facilitation 
of business operations or for the com- 
fort, convenience and security of private residences, including electric 
call bells and door bells for houses, hotels and offices, gas lighting ap- 
paratus, burglar alarms, hotel annunciators, electric watchman's clocks, 
electric lighting plants, dynamos, etc. and all other forms of electrical 
apparatus and appliances. The company carries a full and complete 
stock of all kinds of modern electrical appliances, as well as are agents 
for many special lines of goods. The company is also interested in the 
manufacture of the Star automatic and slow speed dynamos which were 
designed by Mr. M. M. Jacobs of the firm, and are widely recognized as 
first-class dynamos and are sold at a less price than others of less capa- 
bilities. They furnish the trade with supplies at wholesale and have a 
large and growing trade that extends throughout Southern New York 
and Pennsylvania, as well as to more distant sections of the country. 
Ten assistants are employed by the companj^ in fulfilling contracts for 
electrical construction, and among other buildings fitted out by them 
in this city the following named are exemplifications of their skill and 
good workmanship: the Strong block, Ackerman block, Lestershire 
Boot and Shoe Co.'s factory at Lestefi'shire. Bay less Paper Mill, Ross 
building, the Republican building. Hotel Bennett, Arlington Hotel, 
Hotel Crandall. Jones of Binghamton and many other public buildings 
and private residences. 



M. McMAHON 



Manufacturer of Carriages and Business Wagons, 85 to 9 1 Eldredge St. 

This business was founded in 1838 and has since annually increased 
in volume of trade as well as in augmentation of plant. The premises 
occupied embrace a series of suitable buildings, utilized for the several 
departments of manufacture and for office and warerooms, a full stock of 
finished carriages being always on hand from which selections may be 
made. The equipment of the factory embraces a 12-horse power steam 
engine and the usual wood-working machinery. employ being furnished 
to about twenty-five skilled workmen. The products of the house con- 
sist of light pleasure and business carriages, buggies, phaetons, surreys,, 
run-about wagons, road wagons, etc., and business wagons of various 
styles and designs, in the manufacture of which the house has no supe- 
rior, a fact that is fully attested by the large and annually increasing 
number in use by the residents of this city and vicinity who prefer them 
to any other make, the sales of the house being made direct to the con- 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. . 77 

siimer. The house turns out about 12a carriages and wagons of all sorts 
annually, all of which are sold within a circuit of 50 to (JO miles of Bing- 
hamton. It is a self-evident fact that a house turning out a moderate 
number of vehicles such as this, and with each vehicle constructed un- 
der the personal supervision of the proprietor, would be able to supply 
the consumer with a better carriage for the money than could be pro- 
duced by very much larger factories. In connection with the produc- 
tion of new work the house does a very extensive business in repairing 
all kinds of carriages and wagons, which is done promptly at reasonable 
prices. 



D. J. MALANE, 

Sanitary Plumber and Gas Fitter, 88 State St. 

The enterprise of Mr. D. J. Malane is one of the leading establish- 
ments of the kind in the southern tier. The premises occupied consist 
of a commodious and attractively fitted up store and basement, where 
is shown a very full and complete stock of improved plumbing materials 
and apparatus, and artistic gas fixtures, fancy gas globes, sanitary 
specialties, etc., exhibiting, perhaps, the largest and finest selection of 
these goods to be found in the city. A specialty is made of sanitary 
plumbing and ventilating which work is performed in its highest per- 
fection, only the best materials being used and only the most skilled 
wa^rkmen being employed. About fifteen hands are employed during 
the season, and all contracts entered into are executed under the close 
and practical supervision of Mr. Malane, who possesses the broadest 
ideas and widest experience in everything relating to the trade. Among 
the many buildings fitted up with sanitary appliances by this house, we 
cite, as examples of first-class work, the Hotel Bennett, the Arlington 
Hotel, the Strong Block, the new Ackerman Block, the U. S. Govern- 
ment building and Coui't House, besides which very many of the pri- 
vate residences in the city have been fitted from this house. In all his 
relations Mr. Malane will be found energetic, enterprising and liberal, 
and the success and prominence which has attended his business are but 
the just reward of well directed efforts. 



BEAN & CO., 

Wholesale Grocers, 1 62 and 1 64- Water Street. 

A leading representative of the wholesale trade here is the house of 
Messrs. Bean & Co., which was originally founded in 1871 by J, Bean 
& Co., the present firm composed of I.W. and Arthur J. Bean succeeding 
to the business in 1881. The premises occupied by the firm consist of a 
four story and basement building which is equipped with elevators and 
€offee roasters operated by steam power, and the whole is stored with a 
most complete stock of staple and fancy groceries, attractively and sys- 
tematically arranged, and every facility is offered the trade for the 
speedy and satisfactory selection of purchases and the prompt fulfill- 
ment of orders. The gftock comprises a full assortment of groceries, teas, 
coffees, spices, tobaccos, sugar, molasses, dry and salt fish, canned 
goods, etc., all of which are offered at prices which cannot fail to give 
satisfaction to retail dealers within the circuit of their trade which ex- 
tends throughout Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania. An 
advantage of no small consequence that insures to purchasers dealing in 
this market is found in the saving of freights over goods shipped from 
more distant localities, as well as in prompt receipt of orders. Four 
traveling salesmen are employed by the firm and an annually increas- 
ing business is transacted. 



78 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

WINTON & HARROUN, 

Manufacturers of Car Trimmings, and Electrical Brass Goods and Brass Found- 
ers, 39 and 4-1 Whitney St. 

One of the most prominent manufacturing' enterprises of Bingham- 
ton. both as regards the special excellence of the products, its complete 
facilities, and the extent of territory covered by its trade, is that of the 
above named house, which was founded in 18SS. and since Nov., 1889, 
has been conducted under the sole proprietorship of Mr. T. A. Harroun, 
the original firm title, however, being retained. The manufacturing 
facilities embrace a large three-story brick factory with an extension 
in the rear, the whole covering about 40x150 feet. The mechanical 
equipment, which embraces all necessary improved machinery and tools, 
is operated by a lo-horse power steam engine, and employment is fur- 
nished, in the several departments, to about twenty skilled workmen. 
The products of the house consist of a general line of car trimmings^ 
which are largely in demand by car manufacturers throughout New 
York. Pennsylvania and Canada chiefly, and also a line of electrical 
brass goods, dynamos, electric motors, generators, etc., of all sizes and 
for all purposes. A complete electro-plating plant is one of the features 
of the establishment, and a general jobbing brass casting and electro- 
plating business is also done, much work of this character being ac- 
complished for other manufacturers who have not similar facilities of 
their own. A specialty is made of refinishing coach and car trimmings, 
and in this branch of the business a high reputation has been acquired 
for good work and moderate charges. 



W. C. BRONSON & CO., 

Cigar Manufacturers, 7 and 9 North Depot Street. 

Among the large industrial establishments of Binghamton is the 
extensive cigar factory of Messrs. W. C. Bronson & Co., which, though 
instituted as recently as July 1, 1891, bears all the marks and possesses 
all the substantial qualities and advantages of the oldest and best known 
houses in the city, and is pushing with rapid strides towards a promi- 
nent position among the leaders of the cigar industry of Bingham- 
ton. Though as a firm. Messrs. W. C. Bronson & Co., have been en- 
gaged in the business but a few months, the members of the firm, 
Messrs. W. C. Bronson and C. B. Cooke are fully equipped by experience 
and capabilities to carry to a successful finish the industry which they 
have inaugurated. Their factory is comprised in a commodious five 
story and basement brick building 30 x 80 feet in dimensions, which is 
equipped with all the latest improved machinery known to the trade, 
operated by steam power. At the present writing the firm give employ- 
ment to fifty workmen, which number is being daily increased, and by 
January 1, 1892. they confidently expect to have one hundred and fifty 
or more at work, when they will be able to turn out about 30,000 cigars 
daily. The products of the house are mainly confined to a good quality 
of medium grade cigars, no very cheap ones being produced. They are 
all manufactured from well cured tobacco of good quality and by the 
most advanced process resulting in a class of goods that gives good sat- 
isfaction to smokers and insures permanent trade with the houses hand- 
ling them. The trade of the house is exclusively with jobbers and ex- 
tends from Portland, Me., to Portland. Oregon, three traveling salesmen 
being employed by the firm. The cigars are packed under special 
brands to suit customers when desired, and also under their own copy- 
righted brands, of which they have a large number. 3Iany of these 
brands have long enjoyed the highest reputation and popularity in the 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



market, having been the property of a house now out of business, and 
the present owners fully maintain the high character of those brands. 
Among the leading ones we note ''Our Actors," "Our Actresses," 
"Salmon," '• Art Boquet.'' which enjoy a popularity and sale in the 
west that have never been exceeded by those of any other firm in Bing- 
hamton. and are staple with almost every dealer in that section. Tlie 
policy upon which the business of the firm is conducted is one of liber- 
ality, enterprise and fair dealing, and its success and prosperity in the 
future has already been fully demonstrated, and gives every promise of 
steady and permanent growth. 



E. ADAMS & SONS, 

Brass and Iron Founders, 227 and 229 Water St. 

This house commenced operations here in the spring of 1890 and 
has since built up a trade that extends throughout a large section of 
Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania. The facilities em- 
brace a commodious foundry having a capacity for turning out about 
three tons of iron castings and 800 pounds of brass castings daily, em- 
ployment being given to about a dozen skilled workmen. In the brass 
foundry department, everything in the way of brass, bronze and composi- 
tion castings is made for all mechanical purposes and from one quarter 
ounce up to 1.000 pounds or over in weight. In the iron department the 
range of products is equally varied. A large variety of patterns is on hand, 
enabling the firm to readily supply all staple goods, and castings are 
promptly made to order to suit the special requirements of patrons. All 
the details of the work are executed under the personal supervision of 
the members of the firm, all of whom are experienced practical brass 
and iron founders. All orders are promptly filled and only first-class 
castings are made. The members of the firm are Messrs. E. 'Adams. V. 
P. Adams and C. P. Adams, who are closely identified with the indus- 
trial development of Binghamton. 



JOHN NOWLAN, 

Parlor City Boiler Worl<s, 75 and 77 Robinson Street. 

The manufacture of boilers and plate iron work is well represented 
by the Parlor City Boiler Works, of which Mr. John Nowlan is the pro- 
prietor and Mr. Thomas Dunlea is superintendent. This enterprise was 
established about ten years ago and from small beginnings has built up 
a large and annually increasing trade that extends throughout Southern 
New York and Northern Pennsylvania as w^ell as being largely local. 
The growth of the business necessitated enlarged facilities, which have 
been provided by the erection of two large frame buildings in the east- 
ern section of the city adjoining the railroad system. One of the build- 
ings is utilized for plate iron work, the other as an iron foundry. The 
products of the works consist of steam boilers of every description, 
stills, retorts, tanks, chemical pans and every description of plate iron 
and sheet iron work as well as iron castings of all kinds. A specialty 
is made of Dunlea's steam and hot water automatic steel heating 
boilers, which are the best and most economical boilers in the market 
for heating purposes and are in large deinand by the building trade and 
consumers throughout a wide section of the country. Both Mr. Nowlan 
and Mr. Dunlea are practical and skilled plate iron workers and give 
their close personal supervision to all the operations of the enterprise. 
They devote particular attention to repairing which is promptly and 
efficiently performed at reasonable prices. Estimates for anything in 
the line will be promptly furnished and ultimate satisfaction assured in 
the performance of all contracts. 



so THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

VANDEBOGART'S PAPER BOX FACTORY. 

1 23 South Street. 

The vicinity of Bingliamton is a large consumer of paper boxes and 
in this important industry Vandebogart's Paper Box Factory must be 
accredited a foremost place, which, as a house, was the pioneer in this 
industry in this city and is the only representative of it for public ac- 
commodation. It was founded in 1882 by Spaulding & A^andebogart 
and assumed its present title in 1890. The premises utilized are em- 
braced in a two-story factory, which is fully equipped with all the 
latest improved machinery known to the trade, operated by an eight- 
horse power engine and furnishes employment to an average of sixteen 
operatives. The products of the factory comprise all kinds of plain and 
fancy paper boxes, honey boxes, fancy candy boxes, wedding cake 
boxes, etc., which are principally made to order. Any desired shape or 
style is made and the reputation attained for first-class workmanship 
and tasteful designs by this house is unexcelled. During eight months 
in the year the factory ships 2,000 boxes per day to New York to be used 
in putting up Ely's Cream Balm and large quantities are also manufac- 
tured for Dr. Kilmer's medicines of this city. The trade of the house 
extends throughout the city and vicinity and also over a considerable 
portion of New York and Pennsylvania, the bulk of the products being 
taken by local manufacturers. 



J. W. LACEY, 

Cigar Box Manufacturer, 4- and 6 State St. 

This enterprise was originally founded in 1880 by Lacey & Wilkin- 
son, the present proprietor succeeding to the sole control in 1886, since 
which time the business has been largely increased. The premises oc- 
cupied embrace two floors of the three-story building located as above 
indicated, which are equipped with all the latest improved machinery 
known to the trade, operated by steam power, and furnish employment 
to from twenty to thirty operatives, according to the exigencies of the 
season. The average capacity of the factory is about 2,500 boxes per 
day, and the facilities are such that all orders are promptly filled and 
the products are of the very highest character. A specialty is made of 
fine embossed work, in which variety of boxes the house has no supe- 
rior for the production of fine work. This style of boxes is now being 
largely used, and they prove to be attractive and help to sell the con- 
tents. The trade of the house, while being largely with local manufac- 
turers, also extends throughout Southern New York and Northern 
Pennsylvania, and orders are also received from more distant sections. 
The stock of labels, trimmings, etc., carried is always varied enough to 
meet the requirements of a large trade, while the liberal and fair deal- 
ing business policy of the house is such as to attract a large and grow- 
ing patronage. 

H. W. CHUBBUCK & CO., 

Binghamton Spice Mills, 4 & 5 Wall Street. 

This house, the pioneer in its line of trade, must be recognized as 
having promoted in more than an ordinary degree, the commercial in- 
terests of this city, since, during all these years, it has continued on a 
progressive and successful career, until the trade-mark of its specialties 
has become a familiar household word throughout a large portion of 
southern New York and northern Pennsylvania. The premises occu- 
pied are embraced in ten floors of the buildings located as above indica- 
ted, where every modern mechanical appliance for the production of 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. SI 

pure spices, mustard, baking powder and other specialties, bas been 
provided and is operated by a lo-horse power steam engine. The firm 
€arry a large and complete stock of teas, coffees, spices, fancy grocer- 
ies, canned goods and grocers' sundries, which are all procured from 
first hands in large quantities and are offered to the trade at lowest 
market prices. The firm roast and grind their own coffees fresh every 
day and warrant them true to quality represented. Their spices are put 
up under their own brands and in attractive and salable packages, and 
they make a specialty of a large and varied stock of teas. While they 
do not make any false claims to be direct importers of teas, they do 
claim to compete with any other jobbing house located here or else- 
where. The house is represented within the circuit of its trade by three 
experienced traveling salesmen and an annually increasing business is 
transacted. Since the demise of the late senior member of the firm the 
active management of the business has devolved upon Messrs. D. W. & 
J. L. Chubbuck, both of whom are prominently identified with the com- 
mercial growth and prosperity of Binghamton, and are progressive and 
pushing business men. The house was originally founded in 1865 by S. 
D. Beach & Co., the present firm succeeding to the busmess in 1872. 



THE SECURITY MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION, OF 
BINGHAMTON, N. Y., 

Home Offices, Phelps Bank Building. 

The propriety and necessity of life insurance is no longer ques- 
tioned by prudent men, the chief thought being given to an investiga- 
tion of how safe and reliable life insurance can be procured at the least 
€ost. For some years the great objection to "'old line" companies has 
been that insurance, as furnished by them, is too expensive, the prem- 
ium charges being out of all just proportion to the amount necessary to 
pay losses and economical expenses. An insurance contract combining 
safety with economy has long been much desired by the insuring pub- 
lic. The Security Mutual Life Association was incorporated November 
0, 1886, to efficiently meet this want. It is a purely mutual company, 
and its object is to furnish life insurance as reliable and safe as law, 
science and capital can make it, and at as low rates as is consistent with 
absolute safety. The system of insurance adopted by the company was 
devised by Mr. Chas. M. Turner, a gentleman of large experience and 
thorough knowledge of life insurance matters, who occupies the posi- 
tion of secretary and general manager of this association. This system 
avoids the excessive premiums of the '"old line" companies and at the 
same time is not dependent upon uncertain contributions, as are the 
purely after-death assessment societies. The plan or system occupies 
the middle ground between these two extremes of life insurance, and is 
the out-come of long study, patient investigation and scientific analysis 
of all the life insurance methods of the past. Every member who en- 
ters this association makes advance premium payments which provide 
the association with the means to establish three separate funds ; first, 
the Mortuary Fund, which is created for and can be used onl}" for the pay- 
ment of death claims, all the accumulations to this fund from lapses and 
interest beyond such requirements and one hundred thousand dollars as 
an Emergency Fund being returned to the policy-holders in reduction of 
premiums ; second, the Reserve Fund, which, with all its accumula- 
tions from lapses and interest, is equitably apportioned to persistent 
members each five years with the privilege of using it to still farther re- 
duce the premiums, to purchase paid-up insurance, or to make the poli- 
cy self-sustaining with all surplus accumulations added ; third, the Ex- 



82 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

pense Fund, which is the only fund from which the expenses of man- 
agement can be paid. The three funds are. under the by-laws, kept 
separate and apart, and can only be drawn upon for the specific purpos- 
es for which they were created. The premiums always payable in ad- 
vance are rated at age of entry according to the American experience 
table of mortality. To these amounts are added an equitable sum 
which provides for the Emergency and the Reserve Funds. The premi- 
um payments are less than those demanded by "old line" companies, 
and are still further reduced by an equitable proportion of all the profits 
which may accrue to the company by reason of lapses, interest, accum- 
ulations and careful selection of risks. That the plan of the company 
has all the elements of sound, safe and reliable insurance in its compo- 
sition is evidenced by the fact that it already has the largest surplus, in 
proportion to out-standing insurance, of any co-operative company in 
the world, and exceeds the most of the "old line" companies. Its sys- 
tem has the endorsement of the best insurance authorities of America, 
and that it has struck a popular chord is evidenced by the last statement 
of its financial condition, at the end of its fifth year of co-operate exis- 
tence, which shows an unparalleled growth. By this statement dated 
January 1st, 1802, the association shows a surplus of over $150,- 
000.00, with insurance in force of $6,000,000.00. The company issues 
Equation and Annuity policies, at rates, "which to persistent mem- 
bers" are much cheaper than those of after-death assessment socie- 
ties can possibly be, while all the uncertainties of those organizations 
are eliminated, the premium payments being in advance, the expense of 
management being limited and inflexible and all surplus accumulations 
periodically returned to persistent members. The system contains 
every element of permanence and security claimed for the strongest 
''old line " companies. This association has not and never has had a 
death claim due and unpaid : its policies are incontestable, non-forfeit- 
able and free from technicalities and burdensome restrictions. Its 
methods should be investigated by all who are contemplating additional 
life insurance. The officers of the Company are : Messrs. H. J. Gay- 
lord, pres. , J. M. Stone, vice-pres., J. W. Manier, treas., and Chas. M. 
Turner, sec'y and gen'l manager, under whose able management The 
Security Mutual Life Association has attained a position of which they 
may well feel proud and its future gives every promise of usefulness, 
honor and prosperity. The Association is recognized as one of the 
strongest in the country, while none presents to the policy-holder a 
greater amount of benefit. 



CHAS. C. WELLS & CO., 

Manufacturers of Fine Cigars, 34 Whitney Street. 

The cigar manufacturing enterprise of Messrs. Chas. C. Wells & 
Co. was founded in June, 1886, by the liead of the present firm which 
was organized in August, 1891. From its inception the success of this 
house has been a prominent one, each year witnessing an extension of 
its trade and an increase of its facilities and the scope of its operations 
until at present its products are to be found in the hands of the trade in 
all the towns, cities and villages within a radius of 200 miles of Bing- 
hamton. The facilities of the house embrace a commodious factory 
affording employment to from twenty-five to thirty skilled cigar mak- 
ers, the products being fine domestic and Havana hand-made cigars of 
which the firm produce about one million two hundred thousand 
annually. Their cigars are put up chiefly under their own special 
brands, among the best-known of which are: "Social Club,"^ 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 83 



"Electric City/' "Duke of Anjou," "' My Own." " Opera/' " Caprice " 
and " La Rosas " in ten cent ^oods, and "" Prize Winners/' "■ New Ad/' 
"Special Permit/' " Key West/* "Toboggan," "Little Dandies/' '-Mc- 
Ginty/' "Telephone/' "Hustler," "Blazer" and "Little Beauty" in 
five cent goods. The trade will find a line of these cigars added to 
their stock will result in greatly increased patronage. The members of 
the firm are Messrs. C. C. Wells, L. H. Scott and S. J. Clark, all exper- 
ienced and practical cigar manufacturers, who in the conduct of their 
enterprise in this city are adding greatly to the name and fame of 
Binghamton as a source of supply for fine domestic and Havana cigars. 

CONKLIN & MERSEREAU, 

Re-CIeaned Grass Seed by their New Patent Process, Office 1 2S State St. 
Warehouses 2 I, 22, 24- and 26 Commercial Avenue. 

Until comparatively recently one of the most discouraging features 
of the seeding for grass was the impossibility of obtaining pure seeds. 
All the stock offered for sale on the market contained a large per cent. 
of weed seeds and other impurities, which not only failed to produce 
grass when sown but re-produced weeds in countless quantities, in many 
cases entirely destroying the value of the crop to the farmer. Many 
realizing the reward awaiting any one who would invent a cleaner that 
would remove the bull's-eye daisy, black plantain and other objectiona- 
ble seeds, experimented at the expense of much time and money, but on 
account of the difficulty of making the separation, failed to accomplish 
the desired result. Not discouraged by the failure of others and spurred 
on by the demand of the trade, Conklin & Mersereau after much labor 
succeeded in inventing and perfecting a cleaner which from its sim- 
plicity and superiority of workmanship left nothing further to be desired, 
and so completely accomplishing the desired result that they imme- 
diately challenged the world to produce a class of seed equal in purity 
to those re-cleaned by their New Patent Process, and also offered a re- 
ward for finding a suigle plantain or bull's-eye daisy in timothy re- 
cleaned by their patent cleaner. And although this offer has been 
made thousands of times in writing, verbally and printed, and many 
experts have visited Binghamton with their magnifying glasses in their 
pockets, to secure the same, the reward has never been won, although 
it was first offered over eight years ago and the firm has cleaned and 
sold many thousands of bushels since that time. Many dealers who 
formerly bought their seeds in the West now buy them in Bingham- 
ton, as no where on earth can there be found as pure a class of seeds. 
To this fact alone Binghamton is known abroad as well as in the United 
States, as the headquarters of pure grass seeds, and the increase in 
this business in the last few years has surprised even those that are well 
acquainted with its details. Their premises are embraced in a large 
five-story warehouse extending from State street to Commercial avenue, 
and a four-story warehouse on the opposite side of Commercial avenue. 
These warehouses are equipped with special patented machinery, men- 
tioned above , which are run by steam and are fully protected by the patent 
laws of the United States, and can be used by them only.' They are 
also large dealers in other kinds of grass and field seeds, including field 
and ensilage seed corn and seed peas, which are grown for them in dif- 
ferent sections of the United States and Canada, thereby insuring the 
most improved variety and germinating qualities true to name at prices 
that defy competition. The members of the firm are E. W. Conklin, T. 
T. Mersereau and H. E. Conklin, all pushing and enterprising business 
men and closely identified with the growth of the industrial develop- 
ment of Binghamton. Their enterprise is a prominent one of its kind 
and it has done much to attract the attention of the outside world to 
Binghamton. 



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BINGHAMTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 

Manufacturers of Outing Garments. 

No concern in Bing- 
h a m t o n has made 
greater or more sub- 
stantial progress in its 
special line of produc- 
tion than has the 
Binghamton M a n u- 
facturing Co., whose 
efforts, from its in- 
ception, have been 
ably directed to the 
perfection of the man- 
ufacture of outing 
garments for ladies, 
gentlemen and chil- 
dren, and so practical 
has been the result of 
their endeavors that 
to-day their produc- 
tions are in active 
demand by the most 
discriminating class 
of trade in all the large 
cities of the country 
from the Atlantic to 
the Pacific coast. The 
company's record is 
one of honorable pro- 
gress and steady ex- 
pansion of facilities 
and, first, last and all 
the time, of improve- 
ment in quality, style 
and finish of all gar- 
ments. The enterprise 
was instituted in 1885 by Messrs. A. H. La Monte, T. P. Learned and 
C. L. Peak and the present extensive premises utilized were occupied 
in 1888. They are comprised in a four-story brick structure which is 
completely equipped wnth every modern facility for the orderly and 
systematic conduct of the business. An elevator connects all the floors 
and electric bells, speaking tubes, steam power and heat, electric lights 
and gas are provided. The office, sample r^om and stock room are on 
the first floor, the cutting room is on the second floor, the packing and 
finishing rooms are on the third fioor and the top floor, which is lighted 
by sky-lights as well as windows on three sides, is used for the work 
room, the shipping being done in the basement. One hundred and fifty 
operatives, male and female, are given employment, and as all the work 
is done on the premises under the supervision of the members of the 
firm, a uniformity of makeup is secured, which is not possible under 
the contract system, so common with manufacturers in other large 
cities. The Binghamton Manufacturing Company employs only help of 
good character and standing and while they command and receive 
higher wages, the goods that they turn out fully justify the policy by 
their superior excellence of makeup and finish. The products of the 
house consist of original designs in outing garments for men, women 




THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 85 

and children, made from the finest and most fashionable materials, and 
cut, designed, made up and finished in the best possible manner, fully 
equal, in all respects, to any produced by the most respectable custom 
tailors or dressmakers. They include negligee shirts for men. youths 
and boys, outing and tennis suits for ladies and children, ladies and 
misses" waists and blouses, tennis blazers and sashes for ladies and 
gentlemen, tennis caps for ladies and misses, outing and tennis 
suits for gentlemen, house and office coats, boys' waists and blouses, 
sailor blouse kilt suits for boys and girls, and bathing suits for 
ladies and gentlemen. These are made in many styles and sizes and 
of many and varied materials ; in one particular, however, all the 
garments are alike — the high quality. The firm issues an elaborately 
illustrated, artistically printed and exhaustively edited pamph- 
let which will be forwarded the trade upon application. The company 
neglects no single part of their garments, slights no part of the manu- 
facture, employs no poor materials, dispenses with no operations and 
omits nothing" that can in any possible manner add to the style, fit, 
finish or quality of their products, and while they do not wish or claim 
to compete in prices with cheaply made, inferior garments, they cannot 
be undersold by any concern on the same plane of quality and that is 
the very best in the market. While all their products bear the stamp of 
perfection, particular merit has been attained in the Binghamton shirts, 
as their negligee shirts for men, youths and boys have become so widely 
known. These shirts fit like custom made and, unlike the majority in 
the market, the collars have a respectable and permanent roll. They are 
formed so as to fit the neck and shoulders; the collars, collar bands, 
yokes and sleeves are adapted to the wearer's figure and in all their 
features combine to make attractive, serviceable articles of apparel. 
The company's trade relations extend to all parts of the United States, 
two traveling salesmen representing the house on the road and the fine 
city trade everywhere find the Binghamton outing garments the best 
and most salable of their kind. In every respect the management of 
the Binghamton Manufacturing Company is adequate to the mainten- 
ance and augmentation of their present large and increasing trade; they 
have established a reputation in the past of such a character as to make 
personal comments unnecessary and bringing to their enterprise an 
unusual degree of discernment, liberality, industry and integrity are 
fully entitled to the general estimation in which they are held and the 
pronounced success their establishment has attained. 



JOHN M. RUSSELL, 

Manufacturer of Cigars and Jobber of Tobacco, etc., 60 Court Street. 

Prominent in the cigar and tobacco trade of Binghamton is the 
enterprise of Mr. John M. Russell, which, established in 1883. has 
since come to be the headquarters for a large and growing jobbing trade 
in tobacco, cigarettes and smokers' articles as well as fine cigars. The 
premises occupied are embraced in a commodious store and basement, 
with manufacturing department in the rear where a force of skilled ci- 
gar makers are steaddy employed in the production of fine hand-made 
domestic and Havana cigars. All the products are strictly hand-made, 
and the chief brands are the " Medallion," '* J. R.," and *' A 1." in ten 
cent goods, and " Pilot." " The Best." "Specials," and "Our Five." m 
five cent goods. In the jobbing department a full and complete stock of 
all the leading brands of smoking and chewing tobacco and cigarettes 
is carried which are offered to the trade at manufacturers prices, and 
goods are also sold at retail. The trade of the house is chiefly confined 
to Binghamton and vicinity, and is annually increasing in volume. 



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DEXTER D. BROWN, 

Dealer in Furniture, J 70 Washington St., and 121 State St. 

Mr. Dexter D. Brown instituted his business in 1881. and has since 
conducted it with annually increasing- success and iniirience. This 
house is now widely recognized as one of the leading concerns of the 
kind in the State, devoted to the sale of fine furniture. The premises 
occupied are embraced in a four-story and basement building, 22 x 157 
feet in dimensions, extending through from Washington to State street, 
and aifording a floorage area of over 17,000 square feet. The stock of 
furniture here displayed is as complete as energy and enterprise can 
make it and is as elegant as good taste and skill can execute. It em- 
braces furniture for all purposes in fine and medium grades from the 
most inexpensive chairs and tables to the most highly finished and elab- 
orately upholstered and carved parlor and drawing room suites, and in- 
cludes parlor. lil)rary, chamber and dining room furniture, fancy chairs 
and rockers, folding beds, cabinets, desks, side-boards, mirrors, etc., in 
large variety of styles and in all the fashionable woods. Though all ar- 
ticles are substantially and well made from good materials and finely 
finished, the prices charged are most reasonable, the large trade of the 
house enabling them to procure the stock in large quantities direct from 
producers and upon the most advantageous terms and any article of fur- 
niture either for the humblest cottage or the most costly mansion may 
be procured here. The enterprise is in every respect a most reliable one 
and always stands ready to accord the greatest inducements and ad- 
vantages to customers. 




OSGOOD & THOMPSON, 

Scale Manufacturers, Office 217 Water St. 

If there is one thing of more im- 
portance than all others in the affairs 
of commerce, it is just measurement 
in the transfer of commodities; there- 
fore an establishment devoted to the 
manufacture of scales, that most vital 
instrument in the prosecution of 
trade, must receive significent men- 
tion in these pages. The Standard Scales of Messrs. Osgood & Thomp- 
son have for many years been well known in all parts of America and 
in maiiy foreign countries. Especially is this true in recent years of the 
Osgood Combination Wagon Scale, which is the only radical and valu- 
able improvement in wagon scales since they were first perfected. This 
scale, patented by Mr. Osgood in 1876, is the result of over thirty years' 
practical experience and patient investigation. From the first it has forci- 
bly appealed to the scale-using public, as it reduced the cost of manufacture 
materially and, therefore, the price to the purchaser, so that an equally 
reliable standard scale could be bought at a price impossible to be 
furnished bj' any other manufacturer making the old st^-le of scales. 
That it has been appreciated has been evidenced by the growth of the 
enterprise, which has since come to be one of the most important con- 
cerns in this line in the country. The manufacture of "" Osgood" scales 
was begun by Mr. H. B. Osgood and others at Thompsonville, Conn., in 
1846. After several changes and two disastrous fires the business was 
removed to Binghamton in 1865. Mr. H. B. Osgood, the senior member 
of the firm, is the oldest and one of the most thoroughly posted and 
practical scale men in the country to-day. He devotes his entire atten- 
tion to the manufacturing department, which he personally superin- 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 87 

tends. The junior member. Mr. L. K. Thompson, who is a pushing- and 
progressive business man in the prime of his usefuhiess gives his time 
to the finances and sales and has entire charge of the business outside 
the factory. Since tlie establisliment of the present firm the business 
has steadily grown and it has been twice necessary to enlarge the 
factory to supply the demand. To-day it is one of the most important 
manufacturing enterprises in the city. The products of the works em- 
brace a complete line of the larger class of scales, but a specialty is 
made of the Combination Wagon Scale. These machines are all set up 
at the factory and carefully tested before being packed for shipment 
and every scale is fully warranted for five years. They are the only 
cheap scale on the market that is accurate and durable and their sim- 
plicity makes them specially desirable, as they can be set up by an 
•ordinary carpenter and do not easily get out of order. A large illus- 
trated catalogue is published annually by Messrs. Osgood & Thompson, 
and will be furnished interested parties free of charge. The firm's pro- 
ducts are sold in all parts of the United States and Canada, and are 
also largely exported to South and Central America. Mexico, the West 
Indies and Great Britain. The steady progress of the business and the 
triumph of the '' Osgood" Wagon Scale is very gratifying to the pro- 
prietors and they take special pride in the thousands of satisfied custom- 
ers who are using and recommending their scales. 



EDWARD R. MASON, 

Graduate Optician, 1 14- Court Street. 

With the advance of civilization and the consequent studiousness 
of the masses generally and the severe tax made upon their eyes, it is 
not to be wondered at that those organs should suffer from the strain. 
It is no unusual thing to see young boys and girls wearing glasses now- 
a-days and particular attention should therefore be given to caring for 
the eyesight. Only the best glasses should be used and these should 
always be obtained from and be properly adjusted by some competent 
optician and never be purchased from a dealer in miscellaneous goods, 
who having procured his stock in the open market where he could buy 
the cheapest has thought only for profit in the sale of his goods. For- 
tunately for this community it numbers among its commercial resources 
an establishment devoted to the supply of optical goods, which is presided 
over by one of the most expert and accomplished opticians in the State. 
This is that of Mr. Edward R. Mason, who is a graduate optician and 
has made a study of the profession as well as of the practical manufac- 
turing part of the business for a period of nearly twenty years. The 
enterprise he now conducts was founded by his father, Mr. J. H. Mason, 
in 1878 and was later conducted under the style of J. H. Mason & Son, 
Mr. E. R. Mason assuming sole control in 1890. At his handsomely 
appointed place of business he carries a large and complete stock of 
optical goods, eye glasses, spectacles, miscroscopes, etc., as well as 
watches and clocks. Special attention is here given to the scientific 
fitting of spectacles and eye glasses and oculists' prescriptions are also 
filled. Fine watch and clock repairing are also features of the facilities 
of the house, and in all its departments only the most skillful services 
are rendered. Besides a large retail trade considerable jobbing opera- 
tions are transacted, the trade of the house extending throughout South- 
ern New York and Northern Pennsylvania and showing an annual 
increase in volume. Prudent people will do well to consult this estab- 
lishment when requiring anything in the way of optical goods. 



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DARROW HAY COMPANY, 

Manufacturers and Shippers of Short Cut Hay in Bales, Oak and Gaines Streets, 

The facilities of the above named 
company embrace a series of large build- 
ings used for storage and manufacturing 
purposes, the equipment including hay 
cutters, baling presses and other neces- 
sary appliances, which are operated by a 
15-horse power steam engine. The com- 
pany purchases hay from the adjoining section in large quantities, cuts 
it up into short-cut feed, packs inhales and ships it to the trade through- 
out the Eastern States, Pennslvania and as far south as Washington. 
From two to three thousand tons of hay are handled annually, which is- 
sold by the carload only to large dealers. This enterprise was originally 
established by R. S. Darrow. the present proprietors, Messrs. Charles 
Davis and Fred L. Titchener, having assumed control of the business in 
1889. The trade-mark of the company attached to all their bales is a 
guarantee of good, sweet and well-cured hay, which will be found 
economical to consumers from the fact that the animals to whom it is 
fed will not waste it as is the case with inferior qualities. We are 
pleased to chronicle the success and prosperity of this enterprise in this 
Board of Trade review, and it may be ranked as among the old estab- 
lished and permanent enterprises of Binghamton. 



BARNES & CONGDON, 

Binghamton'Marble Wortcs, 96 Chenango St. 

The monumental industry is particularly well represented in Bing- 
hamton by the eminent house of Messrs. Barnes & Congdon, which 
besides being one of the oldest establishments of the kind in the interior 
of the state, is also one of the most notable and prominent. It was 
founded over half a century ago. in 1840, by Mr. J. N. Congdon, and 
since 1870 has been conducted by Messrs. Barnes & Congdon, Mr. J. H. 
Barnes having during all this time been its active business manager. 
Though the house has long been a prominent feature of the local monu- 
ment trade, its business is by no means confined to this city, but extends 
generally throughout the United States as far west as the Pacific coast. 
The firm has always kept one traveling salesman on the road soliciting 
orders for monuments, and Mr. Barnes himself has done much travel- 
ing for the same purpose. The facilities of the house embrace a large 
show-room, shop and yard where a stock of marble and granite monu- 
ments and head-stones is shown. Monuments of all kinds and of the 
largest dimensions and most artistic character, are also designed and 
made to order, and this class of work is the special feature of their 
business. Monuments are set up in any part of the country and all 
contracts are invariably finished to the entire satisfaction of patrons. 
While the cemeteries of this and neighboring cities as well as those of 
other states are graced by many beautiful specimens of this firm's skill, 
they have also erected many notable public monuments in various local- 
ities. They designed and erected the Soldiers" Monument in this city 
at a cost of $10,000. and the Soldiers' Monument at Montrose, Pa., at a 
cost of $4,000. the Soldiers' Monument at New Berlin, at acostof $5,000; 
they furnished the design for the Soldiers' Monument at Owego, N. 
Y., which cost $8,000, and designed the Soldiers' Monument at Sherburne, 
N. Y., which cost $3,500, as well as many others. Mr. Barnes is well 
equipped by long experience to fully meet the wants of the public in the 
matter of monumental work, and the enterprise of which he is the 
head is the most important of its kind in this section. 



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W. p. HOLBERT, 

Manufacturer of and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Lumber, Stone, Lime and 
Cement, 1 , 3 and 5 George Street. 

Mr. Holbert is an old experienced lumber manufacturer and dealer, 
having been established in the business at Equinunk. Pa., as long ago 
as 18G0. He opened his business in this city in November. 1890. but still 
retains his interests at Equinunk. where he has two mills in operation 
getting out hardwood lumber and he also controls the product of another 
mill in Potter County. Pa., which produces hemlock. With these advan- 
tages of being a producer of two kinds of lumber, he enters the realm of 
the dealer so well equipped as to command the attention of buyers. His 
plant in this city embraces extensive yards located on the line of the D., 
L. & W. , affording all facilities for receipt and shipment of stock. Com- 
modious buildings for storage are provided and every modern facility is 
at hand, about twenty w-orkmen being given employment about the 
yards and in making deliveries. The stock handled embraces hemlock, 
pine and hard-wood lumber, lath, shingles, etc.. and the house is also a 
jobber in Glen's Falls lime, and Howe's Cave. Rosendale and Portland 
cement. Estimates are furnished on all kinds of cut stone work, blue 
and brown, and flag walk and curbing are also furnished at lowest 
prices. The trade of the house while being largely local with builders 
and manufacturers also extends in a wholesale way to all the towns 
along the several lines of railway centering here. The long experience 
of Mr. Holbert in the business, and his liberal and enterprising methods- 
have secured for his establishment a high position in the esteem of this, 
community. 



ABEL BENNETT & Co., 

Merchant Tailors and Clothiers, Hotel Bennett Block. 

A striking example of the recognition of merit is found in the ex- 
traordinary popularity and growth of the merchant tailoring and cloth- 
ing house of Messrs. Abel Bennett & Co., which is not only a splendid 
monument to the intelligent enterprise of its management, but is one 
whose great success sheds lustre upon the name of the city. This im- 
portant enterprise was established in 187d and is located in the hand- 
some Hotel Bennett, which was erected by the late Abel Bennett, who 
was one of the most public spirited of Binghamton's honored citizens, 
and was the head of the firm until his demise in 1890, since which time 
the management of the business has devolved upon his son and partner, 
Mr. Fred Bennett. The firm's salesrooms are large, well lighted and. 
attractively appointed, with splendid glass show-windows, which dis- 
play the goods to admirable advantage. The stock embraces everything 
in the way of men's, boys', youths" and children's clothing, the finer 
lines being in every respect equal to the best custom work in fit, finish, 
elegance and fnshion. An important feature of the business is the 
merchant tailoring department, where is placed at the disposal of pa- 
trons a large and choice stock of cassimeres. tweeds, diagonals, fancy 
suitings, etc.. and indeed the finest of imported and domestic fabrics of 
all kinds, from which fashionable and desirable clothing may be made 
to measure to suit the wants of the most exacting class of patrons. 
The business policy adopted is that of liberality, fair dealing and hon- 
est representation in every instance, and thus the name and fame of 
Abel Bennett & Co. has been widely spread abroad as the leading 
merchant tailors and clothiers of Binghamton. 



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THE ARLINGTON, 

Kennedy & Tierney, Proprietors, Corner Chenango and Lewis Sts. 




The Arlington, the leading hotel of Binghamton, was first opened 
to the public April 24. 1888. by its present proprietors and owners, who 
have since made it a favorite with tourists and travellers. The building, 
which is the most recently erected modern hotel edifice in the city, is a 
four-story brick structure, and it is an ornament to the city. It is pro- 
vided with every modern convenience and comfort for its guests that 
experience could suggest or money procure. The office, reading room 
and dining room are located on the ground floor and are handsomely 
finished in oak and decorated in an attractive and cheerful manner. 
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91 



are connected by electric call-bells and a general fire-alarm system, and 
the sanitary conditions have been made as perfect as modern investiga- 
tion has made possible. There are one hundred rooms for guests, all 
light, airy, and comfortable, and furnished in a luxurious manner. The 
culinary department is presided over by an accomplished chef and the 
table is remarkable for its lavish and selected fare. Special attention is 
given to commercial men, who will find here every inducement to make 
the Arlington tlie best hotel in the Southern Tier, in which to remain 
over Sunday. The proprietors, Messrs. J. W. Kennedy and E. M. 
Tierney, are both experienced hosts, accomplished caterers, and genial 
entertainers, and both do all in their power to make the Arlington a 
popular hostelry. The rates are $2.00. $2.50 and $3.00 per day, according 
to the hjcation of rooms, and while the accommodations afforded are in 
every respect equal to those of any other hotel in the state, few even in 
the metropolitan centers offer greater inducements for a longer or 
shorter sojourn. 

NELSON & LEGGE, 

Wholesale Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Produce, 
2 1 9 Chenango Street. 

An old established and well-known 
house, engaged in handling foreign and 
domestic fruits and produce in Bing- 
hamton is that now, and since October, 
1890, known under the the title of Nel- 
son & Legge, which was originally 
founded in 1870 by B. H. Nelson & Co., 
Mr. M. S. Nelson "being the Co. It has 
a wide circle of patrons extending 
throughout Central and Southern New 
York and Northern Pennsylvania, to 
whom shipments are made daily by the 
roads diverging in seven directions from 
this city. In fact, the railroad facilities 
have been a powerful feature in build- 
ing up the trade of this house, since 
country merchants can have orders 
filled from this city with greater prompt- 
ness than any other market in the State. 
The firm's premises afford ample accom- 
modations for storing goods and prompt 
shipments, and six assistants and one 
traveling salesman find occupation w4th 
the house. The goods handled embrace 
foreign fruits of all kinds, oranges, lem- 
ons, bananas, figs, prunes, grapes, nuts, raisins, qtc, as well as domestic 
green fruits, berries and produce, clams, etc. During the season the 
firm are in daily receipt of fruits and produce by the car-load which is 
promptly distributed to their trade in quantities to suit. They also 
solicit consignments of anything in their line on commission, for which 
market prices and quick returns are assured. The individual members 
of the firm are M. S. Nelson and W. S. Legge, each of whom is thor- 
oughly experienced in all the details of the business to which they give 
their close personal attention. In conclusion we may be permitted to 
add that the energy and enterprise shown in the conduct of the business 
of this house have resulted in a well merited and substantial success and 
the high esteein in which the firm is held for honorable character and 
fair and liberal dealing adds no little to the commercial supremacy of 
Binghamton. 




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STONE & GERMOND, 

Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots, Shoes and Rubbers, 1 83 and 1 85 Water St. 

This house was originally 
established in 1865 by Messrs. 
J. M. Stone & Co., who were 
succeeded by Stone, Goff & 
Co. in 1872, the present firm 
coming into possession of the 
business in December, 1890. 
The plant of the firm is com- 
prised in a handsome four- 
story and basement brick 
building, having an elegant 
and spacious salesroom on the 
first floor, and the manufac- 
turing department on the 
upper floors. The latter is 
equipped with all the latest 
improved labor-saving ma- 
chinery known to the trade, operated by steam power, and from ninety 
to one hundred skilled operatives are given steady employment. The 
products of the factory consist of a large line of medium grades of 
men's and boys* boots and shoes. All goods are made from serviceable 
materials and with the greatest care, while in style and finish they are 
fully equal to goods of a much more expensive character, and the re- 
sult is a class of shoes that for durability and service cannot be excelled. 
Besides the goods of their own production the firm handle a general 
line of boots, shoes and rubbers for men, women and children suitable 
for the retail trade, which is procured from the most noted manufac- 
turers of the country, and is not surpassed in the state for variety, ex- 
tent and general desirability. The trade of the house is chiefly confined 
to the Middle and Western States, where the firm is represented by 
traveling salesmen. The members of the firm are Herbert E. Stone and 
Joseph S. Germond. 

A.G.WILSON, 

Fire and Accident Insurance, 6 McNamara Block. 

The above named reliable insurance agency was established about 
twenty years ago. and it has long enjoyed the fullest confidence and con- 
sideration of a wide circle of clients in this city and vicinity. Mr. Wil- 
son transacts a regular Fire Insurance business, and he represents a 
group of stable companies which stand at the very head in insurance 
circles. They are the Agricultural, of Watertown, N. Y.. the Sun Fire 
of London, the Phoenix, of London, the Hanover, of New York, the Con- 
tinental, of New York, and the American, of New York. The Sun Fire, 
of London, is the oldest insurance company in the world and a verita- 
ble rock of stability, and the Agricultural, of Watertown, which writes 
policies on farm and residental property only, is the most successful 
company of its kind in the country. The above list represents $27,000,- 
000 of capital, and the standing and character of these organizations are 
such as to guarantee positive indemnity in case of loss. Mr. Wilson 
also writes accident policies and issues bonds of indemnity through the 
Fidelity and Casualty Co., of New York. Insurance effected through 
this agency is obtained at lowest rates consistent w ith safe methods and 
all losses are promptly and equitably adjusted and paid. Mr. Wilson is 
an experienced underwriter and an enterprising citizen, who enjoys the 
esteem of this community and his agency is an important adjunct to 
the business conveniences of the city. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 93 

BOSS, STOPPARD & HECOX, 

General Insurance Agents, 82 Court Street. 

The general insurance agency of Messrs. Boss. Stoppard & Hecox 
has long been recognized as the leading underwriting enterprise in Bing- 
hamton. It is the oldest and largest agency in the city and was founded 
in 1875 by Chittenden & Boss, who were succeeded in }SS3 by Boss & 
Stoppard and by Boss. Stoppard & Hecox in 1890, and Mr. Boss has 
been actively engaged as an underwriter since 18G8. The firm repre- 
sents only the strongest and staunchest of companies, and to its credit 
it may be said that every just claim during its history has been promptly 
paid. They include such high class organizations as the ^tna, of Hart- 
ford; Buffalo German, of Buffalo; Firemens', of Newark; Firemans' 
Fund, of California; German American, of New York: Germania Fire, of 
New York; Guardian, of London; North British and Mercantile, of Eng- 
land; Insurance Company of North America, of Philadelphia; Mer- 
chants, of Newark; Phoenix, of Hartford; Pennsylvania Fire, of Phil- 
adelphia; Royal, of Liverpool: Western, of Toronto, Canada; Hartford 
Steam Boiler, of Hartford; Travelers Accident Co., of Hartford and 
Lloyd's Plate Glass Co., of New York, the latter being the pioneer and 
the most popular in its line in the country. The firm write policies on 
all classes of insurance except life, including fire, accident, plate glass, 
steam boiler, etc. Their clientage, while chiefly local, also comes 
from the neighboring localities and agricultural district. The members 
of the firm are Messrs. Homer B. Boss, Moses Stoppard and W. H. 
Hecox. „Tlie agency they control has long afforded great conveniences 
and manifest advantages to the residents of this city and country in as- 
suring them certain and solid indemnity in case of loss and disaster by 
fire. 

HATHAWAY & BERRY, 

Millers' Agents and Dealers in Flour and Grain. Office: Room 2 Perry Block. 

As an illustration of the facilities of the city in a commercial sense, 
reference is made to the enterprise of Messrs. Hathaway & Berry, who 
are sales agents for many principal Western millers, and thus bring 
direct to the doors of the fliour and grain trade of Binghamton and its 
tributary territory all the advantages ami trade accommodations afforded 
by the producing sections of the country. This enterprise was started 
here in 1888 by Mr. H. H. Hathaway, who continued it until November 
2, 1891. when he associated with him Mr. I. L. Berry, under the above 
named firm style. The firm represents in this market the Hum- 
boldt Mill Company of Minneapolis, L. Christian & Co. of Minneapolis, 
L. M. Godley & Co. of Scottsville, N. Y., and R P. Fish of Chicago, 
besides which they are in frequent and daily receipt of special communi- 
cations from millers, producers and grain operators in all the great 
trade centers of the West and East. Their connections are such that 
they are enabled to supply the trade with the best brands of flour, grain 
and mill-feed in the largest quantities and at lowest market rates, and 
insure prompt dispatch in filling orders. Sales are made in car-load 
lots, or quantities to suit, both for shipment direct from the mills 
or in transit. Besides visiting the trade in person, daily quotations on 
grain by postal card are sent to all patrons within a radius of one hundred 
miles of Binghamton. Mr. Berry, the new member of the firm, has for 
the past eleven years been the sole representative of the Mosely & Mot- 
ley Milling Company of Rochester, N. Y., and Mr. Hathaway has been 
engaged in the same line of trade for several years. It will pay the 
trade to investigate the methods of this firm, who offer advantages equal 
at least to those obtainable even in the metropolitan trade centers of the 
country. 



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THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



THE BINGHAMTON BUTTER PACKAGE CO. 



24- Wall Street. 





The Binghamton Butter Package Company, of which Mr. Henry C. 
Wood is the proprietor, was instituted in 1888, and came into his posses- 
sion in August. 1801. The Company's manufacturing facilities embrace 
two floors, wliere all necessary tools and appliances are at hand and em- 
ployment is given to about a dozen skilled workmen. The Binghamton 
Butter Package is made upon an entirely different principle from all 
others, and is. beyond question, the best and cheapest butter package of 
merit in the market. Briefly, it is a tin package with a movable non- 
metallic lining. This lining is not only capable of retaining the brine in. 
the butter contained in the package, but also effectually guards against, 
the butter becoming tainted or stained by coming in contact with the 
metal. The packages may be used repeatedly by simply changing the 
linings. In the Binghamton Butter Package the absorption of brine is 
obviated, the admission of air is prevented, with the result that butter 
contained in these packages is preserved sweet and pure for months. 
Another advantage this package has over all others is its weight, it be- 
ing the lightest package in the market, and it is the lowest priced pack- 
age of merit known. Dealers prefer this package on account of the 
facility with which the butter may be stripped by reason of the movable 
lining. The package is neatly painted and bound with wooden hoops, 
top and bottom which give it durability and strength. These packages- 
are made in several sizes and are in active demand by dairies and butter- 
makers in all parts of the country. 



NORTH & SHAW, 

Wholesale Provision Dealers, 1 SO State St. 

This house was founded in 1889. though this date by no means repre- 
sents the experience of the firm in the business, since its senior member, 
Mr. G. S. North, has been actively engaged in the same line of trade in 
this city for the past twenty years, and may be said to be one of the 
pioneers in the provision trade of Binghamton, and Mr. Shaw has been 
in the trade for the past five years. The firm occupy, for the purposes 
of the business, a four-story and basement brick building, located as 
above indicated, where they carry a large and complete stock of pro- 
visions — flour, salt, beans, cheese, salt and dried fish, salt and smoked 
meats, bacon, hams, soap, matches and other specialties, which are^ 



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offered to the trade at lowest market rates. The firm have their own 
smoke-house on the premises, where they smoke their own hams, which 
enjoy a high reputation in the trade and are much sought after by epi- 
cures. About five employes find occupation with the firm and two 
traveling salesmen represent them throughout the circuit of theirtrade, 
which extends throughout Southern NewYork. and Northern Pennsyl- 
vania. With excellent facilities for the transaction of a large business, 
receiving all goods direct from first hands and in large lots, and with a 
thorough knowledge of the trade, this firm is enabled to offer induce- 
ments to dealers which are equal, if not superior, to those obtainable 
froin any other quarter. 



THE BINGHAMTON STEAM AND HOT WATER 
WARMING CO., 

Caylord and Eitapenc, Corner State and Henry Sts. 

This now well known and leading estab- 
lishment, the largest of its kind in the 
Southern Tier, was established in May, 
1880, by Messrs. W. H. Gaylord and F. 
Eitapenc, its present proprietors, since 
which time it has built up a trade that ex- 
tends throughout a large section of New 
York and Pennsylvania, as well as reaches 
into other more distant localities. The 
manufacturing department is equipped 
J with a 60-horse power steam engine and all 
m 'the latest improved machinery necessary 
i|J=!forthe business, including a pipe cutting- 
fi|* I and threading machine capable of cutting- 
iji I an 8-inch pipe, which is the largest machine 
of the kind between New York and Roch- 
ester. The firm give employment to from 
twenty to thirty skilled workmen. A full 
and complete line of steam fittings, boiler 
and steam packing and engineers' supplies 
is carried, including all kinds of iron pipe, 
valves, gauges, etc., which are offered to 
the trade at lowest market prices. The firm are contractors for the 
supply of all kinds of steam and hot water heating apparatus, and they 
also make a specialty in furnishing and setting up steam plants for 
mechanical purposes. They undertake the complete erection and con- 
struction of steam and hot water heating plants for public and private 
buildings, private residences and manufactories in any part of the coun- 
try, and estimates are promptly furnished from specifications. They 
furnished the heating plants for the Binghamton Trust Co.'s building, 
Phelps Bank building, the Ackerman Block, the Ross building, Broome 
County Court House, the Westcott building, the Rogers flats, the Win- 
demer flats. Judge Spaulding's flats, the Bronner Block, and many 
other buildings in this city and vicinity, and they are at the present 
writing about completing the work in the State Asylum at Binghamton. 
They also furnished all the apparatus for heating in the new factories 
of the Lestershire Boot and Shoe Co. at Lestershire. as well as the auto- 
matic sprinkling apparatus, and set the boilers of 300-horse power. In 
this city and vicinity innumerable private residences have also been 
supplied with the productions of this house. Their facilities are unsur- 
passed and the work executed has always been of superior excellence. 




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G. S. ACKLEY & CO., 

The Real Estate Sellers, Ackerman Building:: Branch Office, Lestershire, N. Y. 

The real estate 
enterprise of Messrs. 
G. S. Ackley & Co., 
who. though having 
conducted the busi- 
ness in this city only 
since September 1, 
]8l)l, have by reason 
o f their energetic 
and progressive 
methods, already be- 
come among the most 
prominent represent- 
atives of the profes- 
sion in Binghamton 
and their success f ul- 
Iv entitles them to 
the title of The Real 
Estate Sellers o f 
Binghamton. While 
the firm do a general 
real estate business, 
buying, selling and 
excha n g i n g real 
property of all de- 
scriptions, they have 
recently devoted a 
greater part of their 
attention to the sale 
o f the Lestershire 
lots, which are locat- 
ed in the beautiful 
and attractive suburban village of Lestershire, situated two and one- 
quarter miles west from the Court House Square of Binghamton. The 
jfirm are exclusive agents for these lots, and they have met with re- 
markable success in disposing of them. The village of Lestershire is 
accessible by both the Erie and D.. L. & W. railroads and by street rail- 
way from this city. Although the village has been laid out only two 
years it now has two line churches, a school house, handsome and con- 
venient passenger stations, a variety of stores, a well organized fire de- 
partment, a brick engine house and hall, a number of large manufac- 
turing establishments and a large number of private residences. A 
weekly newspaper. The Lestershire Neivs, one of the best looking, best 
edited and liveliest journals in the State is issued from its own plant, 
and every convenience and luxury may be obtained there that can in 
any way add to the comforts or pleasures of home life. Lots may be 
obtained here for from 1 1 50 up to $ 1 .000 each and to those who wish to se- 
cure a really profitable investment or a desirable site for a home where 
pleasant surroundings and healthful locality contribute to make life 
happy and enjoyable, no location in the State offers so many and val- 
uable inducements. Taking present value and certain future advance- 
ment into considf^ration, these lots are offered at prices lower than any 
others in this vicinity, and payments will be adjusted to suit the con- 
venience of purchasers. We believe that no better opportunity ever 
was offered to obtain a home in a delightful neighborhood under the 




THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 97 

most favorable conditions, than is afforded by this firm at Lestershire. 
Mr. G. S. Ackley, the active manager of the business is a man of push 
and energy and is never satisfied with small results. He is thoroughly 
proficient and capable to advance and foster all interests with which he 
may be entrusted, and he is always ready and willing to give his time 
and attention to any who may wish to investigate the value of any of 
the properties he has for sale. 



E. C. SMITH Sl CO., 

Manufacturers of Spokes and Hubs, 4- and 6 State Street. 

An important adjunct to the carriage building trade of the country 
is the hub and spoke works of E. C. Smith & Co. This enterprise was 
founded about four years ago b}^ J. F. Severson «fe Co., the present pro- 
prietors suceeeding to the business in 3 890. It is the only industry of 
the kind in the city and its products have attained a high reputation in 
the trade for excellence of quality, resulting; in a demand for them that 
extends throughout a large pan of the country. The plant is comprised 
in apart of the building located as above indicated and is fully equipped 
with all the necessary machinery of improved patterns, is operated by 
a 30-horse power engine and furnishes employment to a number of 
skilled workmen. All kinds of spokes and hubs are made, the woods 
used being chiefly oak and hickory for spokes and birch for hubs, which 
are first thoroughly seasoned and are procured direct from the original 
sources of supply, thus enabling the proprietors to put the finished pro- 
ducts on the market, of a quality and at a price that commands the 
attention of the trade. In connection with the production of spokes 
and hubs, the firm are also prepared with all facilities to make to 
order for carpenters and builders, columns, newels, balusters, brackets, 
etc., and also execute all kinds of general and ornamental turning, 
planing, scroll and band sawing at reasonable prices. In every respect 
the house occupies an important position in the productive accommoda- 
tions of Binofhamton. 



CHARLES WOODRUFF, 

Manufacturer of Cigar Boxes, 4- South Street. 

The extensive manufacture of cigars in Binghamton has created a 
correspondingly large demand for boxes in which to pack them, and 
this demand is largely supplied by the enterprise of Mr. Charles Wood- 
ruff, who annually turns out immense quantities of them. This, the 
chief enterprise of the kind in the city and one of the largest of the 
kind in the State, was instituted about sixteen years ago, by its present 
proprietor. The manufacturing plant is embraced in a two-story fac- 
tory which is fully equipped with a large amount of late improved 
special machinery, operated by water power, and employment is here 
given to about sixty workmen. The wood for the cigar boxes comes to 
the factory in the log, and this house is the only one in the State out- 
side of New York city, which saws up its own Spanish cedar from the 
logs. The products embrace Spanish cedar, veneer cedar and imitation 
cedar boxes, which are warranted strictly air dried and of the best 
quality. New and novel styles are continually being introduced, and 
the stock of cigar box labels, tiimmings. edging and ribbons is a heavy 
one. Mr. Woodruff is a practical man at the business to which he gives 
his close personal attention. He enjoys special facilities for supplying 
this class of goods, and his steadily increasing business shows the esti- 
mation in which his house is held by the trade and indicates the enter- 
prise and ability with which the industry is conducted. 



98 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

WILLIS SHARPE KILMER, 

Newspaper Advertising Agency, Office No. 376 Chenango Street. 

A recent and important addition to the general bnsiness facilities 
of this city is the Newspaper Advertising Agency of Mr. Willis Sharpe 
Kilmer, which gives ever}^ promise of becoming a leading institution of 
its kind. Mr. Kilmer enters upon this enterprise fully equipped by 
practical experience, assisted by a competent corps of experts, and 
already has some twenty-five hundred of the prominent newspapers of 
the country under contract, and additions are constantly being made to 
this list. He is fulh^ prepared to place advertisements in all newspapers 
at lowest possible rates, and furnish patrons with the most advanced 
facilities in the way of advertising that is possible to be obtained in any 
of the great metropolitan centers. The writing and preparation of mat- 
ter for publication is one of the special features. The press of the 
country will also find it desirable to be represented by this agency^ 
which is rated in highest credit by both Bradstreet's and Dun's Com- 
mercial Agencies, thus assuring publishers prompt settlements for all 
space used. Mr. Kilmer already numbers many prominent advertisers 
among his clients and estimates for any line of advertising will be 
promptly furnished upon application. As an enterprise greatly con- 
tributing to the completeness of the commercial accommodations of 
Binghamton this agency is fully entitled to the support of the business 
men of this city and vicinity. 



W. C. FOWLER & CO., 

Manufacturers and Dealers in Confectionery, 92 Cinenango St. 

There are no people in the world that are such consumers of confec- 
tionery as the Americans, and the manufacture and sale of confection- 
ery is therefore an important branch of industry. Actively and prom- 
inently engaged in this line of trade in Binghamton is the house of 
Messrs. W. C. Fowler & Co.. whose factory and salesrooms are located 
as above indicated, and embrace a handsomely appointed store, the re- 
tail department being in the front and the wholesale department in the 
rear, a separate building being used for manufacturing purposes. The 
firm manufacture a general line of staple and tine candies and all their 
products are pure and unadulterated. In the retail department the 
goods handled are chiefly of the firm's own production and are made 
fresh daily, while in the wholesale department a full and complete line 
of machine made candies and penny goods is also carried for the trade. 
The firm employs three traveling salesmen and their trade extends 
throughout a large part of Southern New York and Northern Pennsyl- 
vania and is rapidly increasing in volume. The members of the firm 
are Messrs. VV, C. and J. G. Fowler. The business was established in 
1888 by Mr. W. C. Fowler, the present firm having been organized in 
1800. The house is a growing one and enjoys the confidence of the busi- 
ness community both at home and abroad, of which it is in every re- 
spect worthy. 

WHITE & CO., 

Wholesale Dealers in Wines and Liquors, 1 64 Court St. 

A leading, enterprising and ably managed representative of the 
wholesale trade accommodations of Binghamton is the house of Messrs. 
White & Co., of which Mr. Charles White is the proprietor, the "Co."* 
being nominal only. Mr. White began operations in this line in 1863 at 
New York and removed to this city in 1S83. succeeding to the older es- 
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of operations has been greatly extended and a trade has been built up 
that extends throughout a large section of New York. Pennsylvania, 
Western Connecticut, and Eastern Ohio, and is annually increasing in 
volume, requiring the services of two traveling salesmen. The firm 
offers the strongest inducements to the trade in the way of superior 
goods, reasonable prices, and the most advanced accommoVlations. The 
complete stock of goods carried embraces the best distillations and 
vintages of foreign countries and the United States, and all the leading- 
brands of imported wines, gins, brandies and other liquors may be 
found in stock, while in domestic products, and especially fine Kentucky 
bourbon and rye whiskies, nothing is left to be desired. The endeavors 
of the management are directed to handling pure and reliable goods 
which are sold just as they come from the producers and are warrant- 
ed exactly as represented, and whiskies are sold in bond or free as may 
be desired. A New York city office is maintained for the accommoda- 
tions of the trade. Mr. White may be quoted as an honorable merchant 
and enterprising 'business man and his business is conducted upon a 
basis of strict commercial probity. 



OTIS BROTHERS, 

Pharmacists, 63 Court St., Corner State. 




This enterprise was originally instituted in 1872, the present mag- 
nificent store having been first occupied but a few months ago, and it 
is probably the most elegantly appointed and furnished drug store in 
the state. It is 25x90 feet in dimensions and occupies a corner, thus 
being lighted on two sides. The entire fittings are of mahogany, richly 
and tastefully carved, while every line of the woodwork is one of beauty 
and symmetry. Bangs of Boston being the designer. The firm make a 
specialty of supplying the public with family medicines, filling physi- 
cians' prescriptions, and carrying in stock a' full and complete line of 
drugs, pharmaceutical preparations, toilet articles and proprietary med- 



100 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



icines. The prescription department is conducted with a due appreci- 
ation of its responsibilities, and only absolutely pure and high-class 
drugs are used. The firm are also manufacturers of Otis Brothers' 
Never Failing Corn Cure, and Camphorated Cream of Glycerine, 
Hodge's Dentifrice Powder, Cream and Fluid Dentifrice and Rogers' 
Throat Confections, all of which have been proved of superior excellence 
and are widely distributed to the trade thrtughout the country. The 
members of the firm are Messrs. Clark Z. Otis and F. D. Otis. The 
former, who is the resident partner and active manager of the business, 
is widely known as an accomplished pharmacist, and has served as 
president of the New York State Pharmaceutical Association and also 
on the State Board of Pharmacy. The latter is a resident of New York 
where he is engaged in the wholesale drug trade. The profession of 
the pharmacist has been elevated to a dignified position in late years, 
in no particular second to that of any other learned profession, and the 
enterprise of Messrs. Otis Brothers is conducted upon a policy in full 
sympathy with this high position. 



GEORGE A. KENT & CO., 

Manufacturers of Cigars, 53 to 63 Chenango Street. 



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i GAR MANUFACTURERS. 






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One of the leading cigar manufactories of Binghamton is the old- 
established and prominent house of Messrs. George A. Kent & Co., 
which was instituted in 1876 and has since been conducted with 
annually increasing success and influence. The plant is embraced in a 
three-story and basement brick building fronting on two streets and 
affording an abundance of light. The mechanical equipment embraces 
all the latest improved machinery known to the trade that has been 
found useful in decreasing the cost of production and at the same time 
maintaining the high standard of quality, operated by a 20-horse power 
steam engine, employment being afforded to about five hundred opera- 
tives. The products "^of the factory comprise a large number of brands 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



101 



of medium and fine grade cigars, and the output reaches from fifteen 
to twenty millions per annum. The cigars manufactured by the firm 
bear high favor in the trade for sujjerior quality and are in demand by 
the jobbing trade in all parts of the United States. While the brands 
made are numerous, the " Red Star" and •' Wishbone" five cent cigars 
and the •' Commercial " ten cent cigars are particularly popular ones 
and are not excelled by any other goods of the kind in the market. In 
fact whenever the firm's brands are once introduced the demand for 
them continually increases and many of the first customers of the firm 
are still numbered among the most extensive buyers of their goods. 
The individual members of the firm are George A. Kent and Willi;im 
Rood, both prominent and influential members of the business commun- 
ity and closely allied to the growth and prosperity of Binghamton, and 
both are members of the Board of Trade. With an ample capital, hon- 
orably accumulated, and every facility afforded by experience and con- 
nections, Messrs. George A. Kent & Co., are certainly in a position to 
offer lasting and valuable inducements to the trade. 



JOHN GUMBERG & CO., 

Cigar Manufacturers, 30, 32 and 34- Commercial Avenue. 

The above named 
firm is a leading repre- 
sentative of the great 
cigar manufacturing 
industry of Bingham- 
ton. The business was 
founded in 1886 by Van 
"Wormer, Gumberg & 
Co., the present firm, 
composed of Messrs. 
John Gumberg and Cy- 
rus S. Clapp, having 
succeeded to the busi- 
ness in 1889. The man- 
ufacturing facilities of 
the firm embrace a 
four story and base- 
ment brick factory 
(30 x 80 feet in dimen- 
sions, which was 
erected for the purpose in 1887, and is fully supplied with the most per- 
fect accommodations for the economical conduct of the business. The 
mechanical equipment embraces all the latest improved modern appli- 
ances and machinery, operated by a 50-horse power steam engine, and 
employment is furnished to an average force of about two hundred and 
fifty skilled operatives, the factory, however, having ample accommo- 
dations for the employment of at least five hundred hands, should the 
exigencies of the trade demand. The products of the house consist of 
fair and medium grade cigars, which are sold to the jobbing trade only, 
and the trade of the house extends throughout the United States gener- 
ally, two traveling salesmen being constantly employed to visit the firm's 
customers, and the annual output of the factory averages about 8,000,- 
000 cigars. Among the high grade cigars made by the firm we note the 
following popular and well-known brands which are in annually increas- 
ing demand: "■El Brilliante," "El Solitario,"' "Chiquito," "U. S. Mutual," 
"La Perdita" and "Red Bat." These are particularly well made and 




102 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

fine cigars, which have an established reputation over a wide territory, 
and are popular alike with consumers and dealers. Every facility is 
possessed by the tirm for tlie transaction of a large and growing busi- 
ness, and the greatest care is taken in all the processes of manufacture, 
so that the high standard of excellence already achieved in the product 
shall be scrupulously maintained. Mr. Gumb^rg is an exi^erienced and 
practical manufacturer and gives his close personal attention to all the 
operations of the business, and Mr. Clapp is one of the prominent cap- 
italists of this city, and is largely interested in other of this city's inter- 
ests. The enterprise of the firm is deserving of every confidence, and is 
a leading factor in the growth and prosperity of Binghamton. 

GEORGE BUCHANAN, 

Dealer in Wines and Liquors, 1 14 Washington Street. 

Among those houses which can claim a lengthened and honorable 
career and have been prominently identified with the commercial growth 
of this community, that conducted by Mr. George Buchanan is conspic- 
uous. It was originally established in 1857 by Erastus Ross, the present 
proprietor succeeding in 1873. The house has always enjoyed the high- 
est reputation for handling pure and reliable goods and this fact has 
been realized by dealers and the public and has contributed largely to 
its prosperity. The stock embraces American and imported wines and 
liquors, which are sold in five-gallon lots or less, for medicinal and family 
uses, and a specialty is also made of fine bottled goods which are received 
direct from first hands in original packages. All goods are sold on their 
merits and strictly as represented. Mr. Buchanan also handles at retail 
cigars and tobacco, offering the finest and most popular brands of these 
goods at the lowest prices. For over a third of a century the policy of 
this house has remained unchanged and it is still conducted with that 
conservative liberality and reliability which have always entitled it to 
the confidence and popularity of this community. 



G. A. MATTHEWS, 

Real Estate and Fire Insurance, 4-3 Court Street. 

The real estate and insurance agency of Mr. George A. Matthews 
has long been recognized as one of the most prominent in Binghamton. 
Mr. Matthews has enjoyed a lengthened experience in the business, having 
been continuously engaged in it since 1878, formerly at Candor. N. Y., 
and in this city since 1887. Besides a general business knowledge and 
acute judgment he possesses in an eminent degree the essential qualifi- 
cations for the successful prosecution of his enterprise. He devotes his 
energies to handling all kinds of real estate either on commission for 
clients or on his own account. He has upon his books a very large 
list of desirable property and his connections both with buyers and sell- 
ers are intimate and valuable. The great advancement that has been 
characteristic of Binghamton within the past few years is only the be- 
ginning of the tide of expansion that will reach its flood in the future 
and therefore now is the time to invest in real estate, which is sure to 
largely grow in value. Mr. Matthews is in a position to advise and help 
the investor, and under his representations the risk of a false move is 
reduced to a minimum. A special feature of the business is the sale of 
city lots upon easy terms, thus enabling those of small means to share 
in the profits that are sure to come. Fire insurance policies are also 
written in sound and safe companies and an important business is done 
in this line. The business policy of this agency is one of liberality and 
fair dealing and its standing is such as to require no commendation at 
our hands. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 103 

S. N. MITCHELL, 

Real Estate and General Insurance Agency, 1 Ross Block. 

The real estate agent has become a prominent factor in the resources 
of this city, and one of the leading- and most reliable representatives of 
this profession is Mr. S. N. Mitchell, who for the past seven years in 
this city and for a dozen years previously at Susquehanna, Pa., has de- 
voted himself to the study of r( al estate values, and his experience, 
knowledge and sound judgment are at the service of investors and cap- 
italists who desire to take advantage of the large profits which are sure 
to follow the purchase of property in Binghamton and vicinity at the 
present time. Mr. Mitchell has a large list of business and residence 
property in all parts of the city for sale and he also transacts all other 
business relating to the purchase, sale, exchange and renting of real 
estate. An important division of his business is his general insurance 
agency. He represents in this locality the Imperial, of London; the 
Commercial Union, of London; the National, and Hartford, of Hartford; 
the City of London, of London: the Fire Association, and Franklin, of Phil- 
adelphia; the Springfield, of Springfield, Mass.; the Home, of New York; 
the Travelers' Life and Accident, of Hartford; the American Casualty 
and Security Steam Boiler Lisurance Co., of Baltimore, and the Metro- 
politan Plate Glass, of New York, the latter being the largest and most 
noted company in its line in the world ; and all of these guaranteeing 
positive indemnity in case of loss. The insurance department of the 
business enjoys the largest patronage from business men. manufac- 
turers and individuals, and all losses that have been made have been 
promptly adjusted. This agencv is also one of the oldest in the city, 
having been instituted in 1^73 by Page, Chaffee & Babcock, who were 
succeeded by Babcock & Mitchell in 1885. the present proprietor having 
assumed sole control in 1888. Mr. Mitchell is an energetic and enter- 
prising business man and is closely identified with the grow^th and com- 
mercial advancement of Binghamton. 



BROWN & CO., 

Wholesalers of Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Produce, 219 Washington St. 

Among the most important houses engaged in this line of trade in 
this city is that of Messrs. Brown & Co.. which was established in 1887, 
since which time a large and annually increasing business has been 
built up, both direct and on commission, which extends throughout 
Central and Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania. The 
premises of the firm, located as above indicated, are commodious and 
conveniently arranged for the receipt and shipment of goods, and con- 
tain, besides other facilities, a large banana ripening room, where by 
means of heat supplied by gas this luscious fruit is ripened ready for 
market. The firm handles ever}' variety of foreign and domestic fruits 
in their season, including oranges, lemons, bananas, grapes, apples, 
pears, berries of all kinds. Bermuda potatoes and onions and Southern 
early vegetables and produce, as well as nuts, dried fruits, etc., and 
make a specialt}' of peaches and sweet potatoes. All goods are received 
direct from first hands and producers and are promptly distributed to 
the trade, and the firm are shippers and receivers of produce in car lots. 
The firm make liberal advances on consignments of country produce, 
guarantee quick sales and prompt returns, and offer shippers all 
other advantages which may accrue from the best modern meth- 
ods of conducting the business. The members of the firm are 
Messrs. William R. and John A. Brown, both young and enterprising 
business men and closely allied to the promotion of the commercial re- 
lations of Binghamton. 



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THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



THE RILEY BUSINESS COLLEGE, 

Westcott Block. 




The Riley Business College. Shorthand Institute and School of Eng- 
lish Training is among the best-known and most celebrated educational 
institutions in this section of the country. It was established in 1886 
by its present principal. Prof. J. F. Kiley, A. M., and has since acquired 
a reputation for complete and systematic methods of instruction second 
to that of no other similar institution in the State. The college is 
pleasantly located in the attractive Westcott block on State street in 
the very heart of the city and is readily reached by all the principal 
street car lines of the city which pass the door. The school is perfectly 
appointed, its many windows afford an excellent light and in every re- 
spect it is a very pleasant and agreable place in which studies may be 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 105 

pursued under the most favorable conditions. The school is heated by 
steam, is lighted by electricit}^, is connected by telephone and is ap- 
proached by a rapid elevator, and in all its interior arrangements i& 
provided with the most modern facilities and conveniences and is on a 
par with the best in the land. Prof. Riley is assisted in his work by an 
efficient and experienced corps of assistant teachers, each an expert in 
his specialty,- and the course of instruction includes both theoretical 
and practical business training in all its branches, embracing book- 
keeping, commercial correspondence, business forms, commercial law, 
banking and exchange, penmanship, accounting, etc., which are taught 
by a system that achieves the best results in the shortest time. Special 
instruction is also given in shorthand and typewriting, which may be 
pursued separately or in connection with the business course. Besides 
the business course general instruction in all the English branches is 
given, so that the student is acquiring the rudiments of a liberal educa- 
tion while at the same time he is obtaining the practical benefits of 
actual business experience. Prof. Riley has earned the highest reputa- 
tion as an instructor of youth and has turned out more proficients than 
has any similar institution of the same age. An average of about 300 
students annually attend the sessions of the school and both sexes are 
provided for, evening classes being also held for the benefit of those 
unable to attend in the day. Many successful men and women owe no^ 
small measure of their prosperity to the accomplishments and culture 
they have acquired under the tuition of Prof. Riley, and his school gives 
every evidence of a continuance of the good work of the past in the 
future, thus further adding lustre to the reputation of its principal and 
fame to this city as a seat of learning. 



W. S. SMITH &SONS, 

Druggists, Grocers and Commission Merchants, 58 CourtStreet. 

For many years the enterprise of W. S. Smith & Sons has been 
widely and familiarly known to this community as the Peoples' Store, 
and no other similar establishment in the city can lay claim to greater 
popularity. It is also one of long establishment, having been founded 
by W. S. Smith in 1845, and the present firm style was adopted in 1876,, 
its individual members now being Messrs. Wm. T. and Edward C. Smith. 
The premises occupied are comprised in two floors each 30 x 125 feet in 
dimensions which form one of the most attractively arranged and com- 
modious salesrooms on the main thoroughfare of the city. The stock 
carried embraces a full and complete line of drugs, medicines, chemicals^ 
proprietary medicines, toilet articles, surgical instruments and appli- 
ances and physicians" supplies, as well as staple and fancy groceries of 
all kinds, imported and domestic wines and liquors, teas, coffees, spices, 
canned goods, etc. The trade of the house, while being largely local in 
character and at retail, also extends in a wholesale way among small 
dealers in the surrounding counties and is annually increasing in vol- 
ume. Prompt deliveries are made in all parts of the city by the firm's 
own wagons, which are of the most modern construction and are equal 
to any in use in metropolitan cities. A special feature of the business 
is the sale of European steamship tickets. All facilities are offered 
tourists or others in this regard that are obtainal)le at the offices of the 
companies. For nearly half a century this house has occupied an hon- 
orable position in the commercial resources of Binghamton and its 
record of the past is but an evidence of its future usefulness and in- 
creased influence. 



106 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



E. A. ABELL, 

Manufacturer of Pie Preparations, 1 87 and 1 89 Water Street. 



J^lMCE PIETOD^iy ^'■^ 

TH7\T ISTHETJ 
^/"UFF. J]iFFEI^E^J■T 

Pie EVERY D/1^ 




Mr. Abell inaugurated his enter- 
prise June 1. 1890, and has since built 
up a trade for his preparations that 
already extends throughout New 
York. Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 
5 Ml'^lUTFo. and they are gradually being intro- 
.^o duced to the trade generally through- 
oat the country, three traveling sales- 
men being employed in visiting the 
trade. The products embrace a vari- 
ety of evaporated pie preparations, 
which, with the exception of mince 
meat of various kinds and qualities, 
are the only pie preparations on the 
market today which are all ready for 
use. So far, those made by the house, 
embrace mince, apple, plum, raisin, peach, currant and apricot, and this 
list is constantly being increased. These preparations are put up in an 
evaporated condition, are well dessicated, and contain all the ingredients 
necessary to make palatable and wholesome pies, requiring the addition 
of nothing but water, and are ready for immediate use. They are the 
most useful, cheapest and handiest articles of food that have ever been 
introduced, and a pie in five minutes is an absolute fact by the use of 
these preparations. The preparations are put up in half-pound cartoon 
boxes, each box being sufficient for two pies, and it is also put up in 
bulk in paper sacks and wooden pails for the convenience of large con- 
sumers, bakers, hotels and restaurants, by whom it is in large and in- 
creasing demand. All who have used any of the products of this house 
unite in extolling their virtues and desirability, while as a matter of 
economy, a single trial will prove that the same quality of pies cannot 
be made at the same cost in any other manner. 



JOHNSON & LAMB, 

Manufacturers of Ladies', Misses'and Cinildren's Fine Shoes, 2 1 5 Washington St. 

No house has achieved more celebrity in its line within the past few 
years than has that of Messrs. Johnson & Lamb, who instituted it in 
1888. Since that time they have become widely known for the exclu- 
sive manufacture of a particularly high grade of ladies', misses' and 
children's fine shoes, and though not turning out such large quantities 
or covering so wide a territory with their trade as some other Bingham- 
ton houses, they may be said to equalize this in the high quality of the 
product. The premises occupied by the firm are commodious and well 
equipped with all the latest improved machinery, employment being 
given to about thirty hands, with a daily capacity averaging 200 pairs 
of shoes. Wherever introduced the shoes made by this house have be- 
come well known for high quality, style, fit and beauty of finish, and at 
the same time the prices will be found eminently reasonable, taking 
their excellence into consideration. The trade of the house extends 
throughout a large part of this state, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 
and is with the leading retailers in the principal cities and towns. The 
members of the firm are Messrs. C. B. Johnson and George L. Lamb, 
both of whom possess a full and complete knowledge of all the details 
of the business to which they give their close personal attention, Mr. 
Lamb being the manufacturer, while Mr. Johnson markets the product. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 107 

BARRETT BROTHERS. 

Dealers in Pianos and Organs, 98 and 1 OO Court Street. 

Messrs. Barrett Bros.' extensive music and musical warerooms are 
the largest of the kind in this section of the State. This enterprise was 
originally instituted in 1872 by Mr. S. W. Barrett, who discontinued it 
for a time and re-established it in 1865, the present firm succeeding to the 
business in 1 880. Their commodious and handsomely appointed ware- 
rooms are embraced in a double store and basement, each 40 x 00 feet in 
dimensions, where they display a magnificent and complete stock of 
pianos, organs and musical instruments of all kinds for amateurs, teach- 
ers and musical organizations, as well as all descriptions of the most 
popular American and foreign sheet music and music books. The firm 
handle chiefly the Steinway, Weber, Hardman, Knabe, Newby & Evans, 
Sterling and Peck & Sons' '^pianos, and the A. B. Chase, Estey and Chi- 
cago Cottage organs. They offer their instruments upon the most lib- 
eral terms, payments being accepted periodically in small amounts. 
All instruments are warranted, and pianos and organs are also rented. 
The trade of the house reaches throughout Southern New York and 
Northern Pennsylvania, and is annually increasing in volume. One 
traveling salesrnan is employed, and one local agent looks after the 
trade in a near-by village. Mr. S. W. Barrett is an artistic musician, 
and at one time was a teacher of music, and later, a publisher of music 
in New York. He spends his winters in California, where he owns a 
fine vineyard. Mr. V. P. Barrett devotes his attention and energies ex- 
clusively to the management of the business, and both are enterprising 
business men who take marked interest in the commercial and indus- 
trial advance of the city. 

BABCOCK & STOWELL, 

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Iron, Steel, Metals, Heavy and Shelf Hardware, 
1 74- Washington and 1 25 State Sts. 

This concern, whose trade facilities and business ramifications are 
of a metropolitan order, was originally founded in 1874 by Carter, Por- 
ter & Johnson, the present firm succeeding in 1888, after several changes 
of title had intervened, the senior member of the present firm having 
been a partner in two of the preceding ones. The headquarters of the 
firm are embraced in a four-story and basement building extending 
through from Washington to State street, 30x165 feet in dimensions. 
The first floor is devoted to the salesrooms and office, and the remainder 
of the building for storage of the enormous stock carried. This includes 
every variety of articles comprised under the general heading of Heavy 
and Shelf Hardware, and embraces builders' hardware, cabinet hard- 
ware, locks and locksmiths' supplies, butchers' tools and supplies, 
merchant bar iron and steel, carpenters', mechanics' and machinists' 
tools, table and pocket cutlery, manufacturers* supplies, and a multitude 
of other articles the mere enumeration of which would require a volume 
greater than this. In every case their goods are procured direct from 
first hands, and they enjoy especially close and advantageous relations 
with large makers, which place them on a par, as far as prices are con- 
cerned, with the manufacturers themselves. The trade of the house is 
diffused throughout Soutbern New York and Pennsylvania, and entails 
the services of twenty-five assistants , and four traveling salesmen. 
The members of the firm are Messrs. B. M. Babcock and J. E. Stowell, 
both gentlemen of long experience in the business, to which they de- 
vote their close personal attention. They are energetic, progressive and 
indefatigable in their efforts to reach the acme of perfection in their 
accommodations to the trade and also in the promotion of the industrial 
interests of Binghamton. 



108 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



BINGHAMTON CHAIR COMPANY, Limited, 

Manufacturers of Fancy Artistic Roci<ers, Etc., Montgomery Street. 




This enterprise, of which Mr. R. J. Bump is the active manager, 
was instituted about ten years ago, but their present magnificent plant 
has been but recently erected, and is one of the most complete establish- 
ments of the kind in the country, and is as perfect in all details as the 
command of adequate capital and long experience and human con- 
trivance could procure, and is far in advance of any similar establish- 
ment in this city. The location adjoins the tracks of the D., L. & W. 
R. R., affording the most complete facilities for the receipt of raw ma- 
terials and the shipment of the finished products without rehandling, 
and large yards give ample room for storing lumber. The main build- 
ings, two in number, are each three stories high, built of brick on the 
slow-burning principle. The larger one is 50x1-50 feet in dimensions, 
the other 50 X 75 feet, and they are connected at the upper stories by 
bridges. The floors are solid planks five inches in thickness, and are 
held in place by heavy timbers without joists. There are no openings 
in the floors, the stairways being on the outside of the buildings, and 



THE CITY OF BINCHAMTON. 109 

each floor is equipped with automatic sprinklers. The mechanical 
equipment embraces all the latest improved machinery known to the 
trade, which is operated by a 100-horse power steam engine, and one 
hundred and twenty-five skilled workmen are given employment. All 
oils, varnishes, and other specially inflammal)le materials are stored in 
a separate underground vault. The pi'oductions embrace a large vari- 
ety of styles and designs in fancy rockers upholstered in silk plush, tap- 
estries and other fine fabrics, and polished wood seat chairs for halls, 
reception rooms and alcoves. Many of these are fancifully and uniquely 
carved and ornamented, and fashioned after antique models. New styles 
and designs are constantly being introduced, each one, if possible, more 
beautiful and artistic than its predecessor. The company issues plates 
of their chairs as fast as new ones are introduced, in place of semi-annual 
catalogues, and hence they are always up to date. 



MEAGLEY & BLANCHARD, 

Dealers in Coal, 25 Prospect Avenue. 

The coal trade forms a very important item in the list of industries 
of Binghamton. and there are a number of extensive dealers here who 
have availed themselves of all modern facilities for promptly supplying 
the demand for this staple, among whom Messrs. Meaglej^ & Blanchard 
occupy a prominent position. This house was inaugurated in 1878, and 
has since built up a large trade with families and manufacturers through- 
out the city that involves the handling annually of upwards of twelve 
thousand tons. The facilities of the firm embrace a yard and coal pock- 
ets for storage which adjoin the Erie railroad main line and admits of 
the discharge of supplies of coal direct from the cars without rehan- 
dling. Telephonic communication insures prompt fulfillment of orders, 
and with an ample storage capacity, a full supply of the various varie- 
ties of coal is always kept on hand. The active management of the 
business devolves upon Mr. La Motte Blanchard. who is eminently 
qualified for its successful conduct. The firm has always been recog- 
nized as enterprising, liberal and fair dealing, and it is one of the most 
prominent of its kind in the city. 



VICKERS & BROOKER, 

Plumbers and Gas Fitters, Steam and Hot Water Heatingf, 
1 36 State Street and 29 Commercial Avenue. 

This firm commenced operations here in 1885, and have since exe- 
cuted a large amount of work in their line for the owners of public and 
private buildings in this city and vicinity, notably the Rich building 
and the Rogers apartment house. The firm occupy a commodious store 
and basement, with shop in rear, where they carry an extensive stock 
of plumbers* materials and steam and gas fittings, including the latest 
improved sanitary appliances, and in fact, everything necessary or 
requisite for the perfect execution of sanitary plumbing and gas fitting 
in all its branches. They also make steam and hot water heating a 
prominent feature of their business, and they are agents in this city for 
the celebrated Perfect hot water heaters and steam boilers manufac- 
tured by the Richardson & Boynton Co. These devices are widely rec- 
ognized as being the most perfect before the public for the proper and 
economical heating and ventilating of public and private buildings. 
The firm promptly submits estimates for any work in their line, and the 
marked success tliey have met with, and the entire satisfaction they 
have given to their large number of patrons in the past fully entitles 
them to be numbered among the leaders in their line of trade. 



110 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

THE BINGHAMTON SAFE DEPOSIT CO., 

151 Washington Street. 

The vaults of the Binghamton Safe Deposit Co. are located on the 
ground floor of the building at 151 Washington St., and in the rear of and 
connected with the offices of the First National Bank, the management 
of the two institutions being practically the same, and as follows : 
Pres., F. T. Newell : Vice-Pres., Harper Dusenbury, and Sec'y and 
Treas. John Manier, to whose active and indefatigable efforts is largely 
due the credit for originating and successfully managing this important 
enterprise, which has proved so beneficial to the citizens of Bing- 
hamton and vicinity, and which was the pioneer in its field of accom- 
modation. The company was organized to furnish an absolutely safe 
and convenient place of deposit for valuables of every description, under 
guarantee, including bonds, stocks, deeds, mortgages, specie, jewelry, 
diamonds, silver plate, etc. For this purpose a large vault has been pro- 
vided which contains a large number of small safe deposit boxes, which are 
leased to individuals for any length of time at a small annual rental. 
These boxes are so arranged as to be easily accessible for their lessees, 
and absolutely safe from interference b}^ anyone else. The vault is 
both fire and burglar proof, and is furthermore constantly watched by 
armed guardians. In fact, in the construction and charge of the vault 
every modern appliance that is in any way calculated to defy the rav- 
ages of fire or the attacks of burglars or a mob, has been provided, and 
the patron who confides his valuables to the safekeeping of the company 
may feel as secure as if they were locked up in the rock of Gibraltar. 



THE HOFFMAN LUBRICATING OIL COMPANY, 

Manufacturers of Lubricators and Lubricating Oils, 
Office and Works, South Street. 

The Hoffman Lubricating Oil Company ranks, in 
the production of lubricating oils and lubricators, second 
to no other in this section. This company was originally 
established about ten years ago and was incorporated 
under the present title in May, 1890. The premises util- 
ized for manufacturing purposes consist of a series of 
suitable buildings, which are equipped with all necessary 
appliances and afford ample room for storage purposes. 
The products of the company in the oil department 
embrace a variety of cylinder and machinery oils, which 
are highly commended by consumers for superior quality 
and economy in use. They are in active demand by the 
trade and consumers throughout the coal and iron regions- 
of Pennsylvania as well as in this city and vicinity. 
A prominent specialty of the company is the manufac- 
ture of the Hoffman Automatic Lubricator for stationary 
engines. This lubricator has no equal for simplicity and reliability of 
work and is the only lubricator that does not chill or freeze up in cold 
weather, and stops and starts with the engine. It operates by the cur- 
rent of steam as it passes from the boiler to the engine, and by this 
method, when the engine labors hard and requires more oil, the current 
of steam is greater and the lubricator will feed faster. The company 
manufactures an oil especially adapted for use in automatic lubricators 
which is confidently recommended to all parties desiring a first-clas& 
article. These lubricators are in use in all parts of the country and are 
highly commended by all engineers who have used them. The officers 
of the company are Messrs. R. J. Hoffman, pres., and R. W. Lester, 
sec'y and treas. 




THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



Ill 



L. 1. WEED, 

Engineer and Manufacturer of Artistic Cabinet Work, 25 and 26 Wall St. 

" There is always room at the top " in every calling and acting upon 
this trueism Mr. L. I. Weed established himself in this city about two- 
years ago as an interior and exterior decorator and designer and manu- 
facturer of fine artistic cabinet work, since which time he has achieved 
a marked success and built up a demand for his services that extends- 
troughout the trade radius of Binghamton. His facilities embrace a 
commodious and well-equipped workshop, where employment is fur- 
nished to a force of skilled workmen and where all necessary machinery 
is at hand. The products of the house consist mainly of hard-wood 
mantels made from original designs, store, office and bank fixtures, 
counters, railings, desks, church furniture and interior and exterior 
decorations of all kinds in wood and fine cabinet work. The most elabo- 
rate productions are made when desired, consisting of beautifully 
carved and polished wood-work, ixiade from the most expensive hard 
woods, single mantels frequently being valued at many hundreds of 
dollars, being turned out from this establishment. Mr. Weed has fur- 
nished the interior hard- wood decorations for many of the most noted 
private mansions and public buildings in this city and vicinity, a list of 
which with privileges of reference may be obtained upon application. 
Drawings and estimates for any class of interior or exterior decorations 
or artistic cabinet work may be obtained, and while the high character 
of all work produced is guaranteed, the prices are made upon a liberal 
and fair-dealing basis, which is sure to prove satisfactory to all patrons. 
A specialty is also made of slate mantels, tiles and grates and in fact all 
work of this character. 



MT. PROSPECT MEDICAL INSTITUTE, 

so to 90 Prospect Street. 

The Mt. Prospect Medical Institute of Binghamton was recently es- 
tablished for the treatment of inebriety from whatev er cause, whether 
from alcohol, opium or other narcotics. The institution, since its pur- 
chase by its present proprietors, has been 
extensively remodeled and improved and 
in its present condition is one of the best 
equipped private institutions in the coun- 
try. It is admirably situated, in a most 
beautiful and healthful location, about 
half way up Mt. Prospect, overlooking 
from its windows and broad piazzas the 
city and valley —east, south and west — 
while the wooded slopes of Mt. Prospect 
in the rear protect it from the cold north 
winds and make it a delightful retreat for 
invalids. The building is three stories- 
high, substantially constructed, with high 
walls and sunny windows. It is heated 
by a combination hot water and hot air sys- 
tem and the sanitary arrangements and 
safeguards for health are all that modern experience and scientific re- 
search have dictated. The famous Mt. Prospect spring supplies the in- 
stitution with the purest water and the large and well-shaded grounds- 
that surround the building afford ample space for exercise. The gen- 
eral aspect is such as has a soothing and quieting influence on the in- 
mates, and as the number of patients is limited, each has the benefit of 




112 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

the constant personal care of the faculty, and the habits of each are 
thus critically observed and studied, with the result that permanent and 
speedy cure is effected in many instances. Turkish, electric and plunge 
bathsare among- the conveniences of the institution, and in fact every- 
thing is at hand for the comfort and cure of patients. All the latest 
and most successful methods are employed in the management of this 
inebriety. The system includes both moral and medical treatment, the 
family plan being adopted, which while giving each patient the ad- 
vantage of a comfortable and attractive home at the same time insures 
his being continually under the eye of a trained and experienced spe- 
cialist and capable nurses. The proprietors of the institute are Dr. E. 
A. Pierce and Dr. C. W. Ingraham, both well-known and famous prac- 
titioners of this city. The former visits the institute daily and the latter 
is the resident physician, while Dr. C. B. Richards is the medical super- 
intendent, and five of the most prominent phvsicians in the Southern 
Tier. Drs. J. G. Orton, S. F. McFarland, J. H." Chittenden. L. D. Farn- 
ham and W. A. Moore are consultants. The management has already 
had the gratification of effecting some remarkable cures, and the insti- 
tute gives every promise of continued success and prosperity. 



THE MERCANTILE AGENCY, R. G. DUN & CO., 

Phelps Bank Building, Chenango Street. 

The question of credits is of vital interest to the business community, 
and anything that aims to protect and help the business man in the ex- 
tension of his credits is worthy of confidence. The more thorough the 
system the greater the protection, and the more offices and subscribers 
to the system the greater the benefit. At the head of the few organiza- 
tions instituted with this object in view, stands the mercantile agency 
of R. G. Dun & Co., which was established in New York in 1841. eight 
years before any other agency, and is therefore the oldest concern of the 
kind in the world. This firm have in all one hundred and forty-one 
branch offices in the United States. Canada. London, Liverpool, Man- 
chester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Berlin and Paris, and at Melbourne, 
Australia. In this city the business is conducted under the able man- 
agement of Mr. William H. Parsons, who has become well and favora- 
bly known to almost every merchant and manufacturer in Binghamton 
and vicinity, since his location here. One of the great secrets of the 
success earned by this organization is the thorough and systematic 
manner in which its reports are completed. Each office sends out trav- 
eling reporters over its entire territory regularly twice each year. 
These men, trained to the business, visit every cross-road town and 
county seat in the whole country and ascertain on the ground by per- 
sonal investigation the status and condition of traders. They have also 
in their employ thousands of the ablest authorities upon the financial 
standing of the business people in every community, who are giving 
them the benefit of their invaluable knowledge This systematic work 
entails large outlay, but is found to be the only true way to do the busi- 
ness, which so much depends upon the reliability and thoroughness of 
the information rendered. It is gratifying to learn that this mercantile 
agency is patronized by the majority of the banks, manufacturers and 
merchants in this city and all over the vicinity, and it certainly invites 
the support of those who transact a business where credit is given and 
obtained. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 113 

BERWIND-WHITE COAL MININGCO., 

Miners and Shippers of tine Eurel<a Bituminous Coals. Geo. E. Green, 
Sales Agent, Rooms 3, 4- and 5 Perry Block. 

No interest in the range of industrial and commercial activity of 
Bing'hamton is more important than that of coal, and both as regards 
capital invested and the direct benefit'^ derived therefrom to all classes 
of the community, no branch of trade in the United States is of a more 
useful or necessary nature. Binghamton is the headquarters of a 
branch office of the Berwind- White Coal Mining Co., of Pennsylvania, 
under the management of Mr. Geo. E. Green. This company is the 
largest colliery proprietor and shipper of Bituminous coals in the Uni- 
ted States, operating extensive collieries in Clearfield Centre. Jefferson 
and Westmoreland Counties, Penna., as well as other sections of the 
State, shipping their products via. rail to all parts of New England, the 
Middle and Western States and Canada, and by transhipment at Phila- 
delphia, New York and Baltimore to coastwise and foreign ports. Their 
celebrated Eureka Bituminous coals have long been the most popular 
fuels in the market for steam generating and general manufacturing 
purposes, and are unexcelled as fuel for steamships, locomotives, man- 
ufactories, rolling mills, forges, glass works, brick and lime burning, 
and especially adapted for the manufacture of steel, iron, etc., and are 
largely in demand for these purposes. From the Binghamton branch 
office sales are made throughout New York state and Canada, at whole- 
sale only, in car lots, to railroads, coal merchants and manufacturers, 
shipments being made direct to consumers from the mines without 
breaking bulk. This company's coal is perfect in combustion, produc- 
ing little smoke compared with ordinary Bituminous coal. Eureka coals 
contain a high per centage of fixed carbon, and an exceptionally low 
per centage of ash and impurities, producing intense heat and plenty of 
steam on small consumption. It is largely used'by the principal manu- 
facturers of this State and Canada, and its employment is annually in- 
creasing in volume. This agency is regarded as one of the permanent 
and important resources of Binghamton. Mr. Green is a capable and 
experienced manager, and enjoys the esteem and consideration of a 
large clientage. Altogether the enterprise may be considered as one 
which largely enhances the manufacturing interests of the city and dis- 
trict, while the establishment and maintenance here of a branch of such 
an important concern as the Berwind- White Coal Mining Co. is an evi- 
dence of the commercial importance of Binghamton. It may be inci- 
dentally mentioned that Mr. Green is also a member of the firm of Ash- 
ley & Green. Hayen Building. Buffalo, N. Y., who do a large wholesale 
business in both Anthracite and Bituminous coals. 



RICH BROTHERS, 

Fire Insurance and Real Estate Agency, 69 Court Street. 

This firm transacts a real estate and fire insurance business, chiefly 
with relation to their own holdings, they being largely interested in and 
owners of central business property in Binghamton. The individual 
members of the firm are Messrs. T. G. Rich. Jr.. and E. B. Rich, both 
gentlemen of standing and respectability in this community. Their 
efforts have been productive of much good and conduce greatly to the 
general resources of this city, and at all times they stand ready to 
accord all advantages to patrons. 



114 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 




BARLOW, ROGERS & SIMPSON, 

Cigar Manufacturers, 6, 7, 8, 9 and lO Wall Street. 

Widely noted a s- 
Binghamton is as an 
important manufac- 
turing centre, there 
are among her varied 
industries some which 
have attained great 
prominence through- 
out the country. Eas- 
ily in the lead is that 
of the manufacture of 
cigars. In this indus- 
try Binghamton has 
forged to the front un- 
til, for some years past, 
and at present, she oc- 
cupies a foremost po- 
sition in the cigar 
world. This is a stand- 
ing tribute to the skill, 
energy and business 
ability of the men who 
have controlled and 
directed the affairs of 
the numerous firms in 
this line. Of such as have attained a national reputation and impor- 
tance, none is more notable than the firm of Barlow, Rogers & Simpson. 
This house, founded in 1885, from its inception became one of the leaders 
and in the third year of its existence. 1888, established the proud record 
of not only leading the home production, but of making and selling more 
five cent cigars than any firm in the United States for which we give 
the figures from the record. We quote here in its entirety a letter from 
the only recognized and absolute authority on which no shadow of a 
doubt can be thrown: 

U. S. Internal Revenue, Deputy Collector's Office, ) 
Binghamton, N. Y., December 31, 1888. f 

Messrs. Barloiv, Rogers & Simpson: 

Gentlemen: — In replj^ to yours of today, the U. S. Internal Revenue Records in my 
office show, that during the calendar year of 1888 you have paid into this office Sixty-one 
Thousand Six Hundred Kighty-four Dollars and Fifty Cents, ($61,684.50) for Cigar Stamps, 
representing Twentv Millions, Five Hundred and Sixty-one Thousand Five Hundred 
Cigars, (20.o61.o00.)" 

On examining the Records of tins office for past A'ears. I find this to be the LARGEST 
NUMBER OF CIGARS EVKR SENT OUT BY ANY ONE FIRM FROM THIS DIS- 
TRICT IN ANY CALENDAR YEAR. Verv Respectfully, 

A. J. INLOES, 
Deputy Collector, 7th Division, 21st District. 

Their factory occupies a block of buildings, five in number and four 
stories in height, with full basements. All of this space, some 40,0(^0 
square feet, is needed and utilized in the diff^erent departments of their 
manufacturing business, while the leaf tobacco or raw material, of which 
they at all times carry an immense stock, is stored in warehouses in 
other localities. The mechanical equipment embraces all the latest im- 
proved special machinery used in the trade, which is operated by a 25- 
horse power steam engine and 45-horse power boiler which furnishes 
power to drive the machinery, run two elevators and heat the building 



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in every part. The firm manufactures an endless variety of medium 
grade and domestic cigars which are put up chiefly under their own reg- 
istered brands and are sold to the jobbing trade only, in unbroken cases 
in all the trade centres of the United States. Five hundred operatives 
are kept busy within the walls of this mammoth ''beehive" of the cigar 
business and such a thing as a "lay-off" on account of dull trade has 
never as yet occurred. While the number of brands produced are large 
and varied, the following have attained great prominence and unequalled 
popularity among the lovers of a good cigar at a moderate price, and 
may be said to be their leading brands: "Red Seal." "Dispatch," "Cow 
Boy," "Honey Suckle" and "Fire Brigade." Once placed where the 
consumer can test their merit, their success is a foregone conclusion 
and the fact of their large and increasing trade from year to year, shows 
of itself the reputation in which the products of this justly celebrated 
firm are held by those to whom they have been introduced. Their trade 
may well be said to be a permanent one, and careful selections and 
blending of tobaccos, never ending originality of designs in artistic 
labels, new and beautiful packages with choice advertising matter call- 
ing attention to the same all combine to make an outfit seldom equalled 
and never excelled. Add to this the fairest and most courteous treat- 
ment from its gentlemanly representatives and the house itself, and it is 
surely a pleasure to be numbered among its legion of friends and 
patrons. The individual members of the firm are Messrs. George H. 
Barlow, Richard J. Rogers and John B. Simpson, all of whom are experi- 
enced in the manufacture of cigars and progressive business men. The 
firm is represented in the Binghamton Board of Trade. They are uni- 
versally popular and respected, their commercial relations are wide 
spread, their facilities are unsurpassed and the wise guidance of their 
business enterprise has been noteworthy, resulting in having reared a 
great establishment which is a lasting source of credit to Binghamton's 
fair name and a monument to their own industry, genius and enterprise. 



THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 

Sewing Machines, 90 Chenango Street. 

The Singer sewing machines are everywhere recognized throughout 
the civilized world as the best for all purposes. From its inception the 
company has put upon the market over 10,000.000 machines, of which 
more than 7,000.000 are used exclusively for family sewing. The com- 
pany's new Oscillating Shuttle machine for family use is the latest 
development in sewing machines, and is an entirely new style different 
from all other machines, and contains the most valual)le principles ever 
put in a sewing machine. This machine excels all others in fine family 
work and in decorative art needle work stands beyond competition. It 
is the fastest speed, the least noisy and the easiest running machine 
ever made. Other popular machines made by this company are the 
Vibrating Shuttle No. 2, which is an ideal family sewing machine, and 
the Automatic Tension which is a single thread machine. At the com- 
pany's branch office, in this city, a full assortment of their perfect sew- 
ing machines is shown, and full information with regard to their merits 
will be cheerfully furnished to all investigators. The office here is 
under the management of Mr. E. R. Hildreth, who has been with the 
company for a number of years. He controls the business in Broome, 
Tioga, Cortland and Tompkins counties and employs about twenty 
agents and has four branch offices. By his energy and push he has 
done much to create a large demand for Singer machines in this section. 



116 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

BINGHAMTON CIGAR COMPANY, 

Manufacturer of Cigars, 1 5 and 1 7 North Depot Street. 

The manufacture of cigars is Bing-ham ton's leading industry, and 
there is hardly a town in the Union where her goods are not sold, and 
in all sections their reputation stands high for quality and uniformity. 
The Binghamton Cigar Company is one of the leading houses in the 
trade, which, in its particular specialty of fine Havana hlled cigars, has 
few successful rivals in the country. This house manufactures cigars 
ranging in price from .$20.00 to $120.00 per thousand in case lots and 
makes a specialty of goods which retail for ten and fifteen ^cents each, 
and all their products rank with the very best of the kind known to the 
trade. The business was established in 1887 and has since built up a 
trade that extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and is annually in- 
creasing in volume. The manufacturing facilities of the firm embrace 
a five-story and basement building, which is equipped with improved 
machinery and all modern appliances, operated by steam power and 
furnishes employment to about one hundred and fifty skilled w^orkmen. 
Two resident salesmen and two travelers represent the firm to the 
trade, sales being made to jobbers only. The cigars made by the firm 
are principally packed under their own brands, though special brands to 
suit customers are also used. Among the most popular of the firm's 
brands are: "'Berwind," " Moonstone "' " Leo Grande." '"Board of Trade," 
'•Berkeley," -"El Venito," •'Windsor Castle," ''Sure Catch," •'Our 
Treasures." "Us Two," "Great American," etc., all of which have a 
wide popularity among dealers and consumers and are esteemed for 
handsome appearance, fine flavor, excellent smoking qualities and in- 
variable uniformity. The firm use nothing but the best domestic 
seed and Havana stock, Sumatra and fine Housatonic wrappers, and 
exercise the greatest care in manufacturing in all departments. 
They aim to be abreast of the times in all improved processes that 
will' in any way benefit their customers and propagate trade, and 
they are everywhere recognized as enterprising and prosperous manu- 
facturers and honorable business men. The members of the firm are 
Messrs. Hon. Rodney A. Ford and Geo. E. Green, Theo. P. Calkin being 
the business manager. Their success is a well-merited result of an intel- 
ligent application of system and enterprise in their business, while the 
extent and character of their trade is another evidence of the fact that 
Binghamton possesses advantages as a first-class manufacturing and 
distributing center, which must result in extending and increasing her 
relations with the outside world. 



SHAPLEY & WELLS, 

Builders of Engines, Boilers, Tannery Machinery, Etc., Washington, 
Hawley and State Streets. 

The extensive engine building and machinery works of Messrs. 
Shapley & Wells, besides being the only one of aii}^ considerable im- 
portance in this section of the State, is one of the oldest established con- 
c )rns of the kind. It was originally founded in 1850 by Messrs. Shapley 
& Dunk and after several changes of firm style the present one was 
adopted in 1870. No single fact better illustrates the high reputation 
the perfected products of these works bear among the users of power 
everywhere, than that the engines and boilers made by this firm have 
been shipped to all parts of the civilized globe, and are now in use by 
manufacturers in all the countries of Europe, in China, in South Africa, 
in the West Indies, in Central and South America, in Canada and in 
every State and Territory of the United States. The firm's plant covers 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 117 

about half a city block, and the various departments comprise the ma- 
chine, boiler and pattern shops, foundry and storage buildings. A 
force of 85 to 100 skilled mechanics is given employment, all of whose 
operations are conducted with perfect system and order. The firm are 
builders of engines and boilers of all kinds, complete tannery outfits and 
general and special machinery and are also dealers in steam engine 
supplies, fittings, etc. The Shapley Portable Engines are made in sizes 
ranging from three to fifteen horse power each. The boiler is a rapid 
generator of steam, and is the only one in which all the heating sur- 
faces are below the water line, which avoids all liability to burn out the 
boiler, therefore increasing its durability. A very important advantage 
in the use of this boiler is the absolute absence of sparks, which are 
overcome by having water standing in the base, into which the vertical 
tubes discharge all their contents of smoke, etc. Another important 
specialty of the firm is the manufacture of bark mills for tanneries and 
complete tannery outfits. The individual members of the firm are 
Messrs. J. S. Wells, J. E. Shapley and W. M. Shapley, who are among 
the most prominent and progressive business men of Binghamton. 



HENNESSEY BROTHERS, 

Manufacturers of Fine Cigars, 161 Washington Street. 

The enterprise of Messrs. Hennessy Brothers was instituted in 1888. 
The premises occupied are supplied with all modern facilities for the 
economical production of the high-grade cigars for which the house has 
become widely noted, including the special brands "World's Enter- 
prise" ten cent cigar, and '' Liberal League." "Hennessey's Three Star," 
'' Pharmacist" and "Co-Operative" five cent cigars. These goods are 
all strictly hand-made, are uniform in quality and made by a corps of 
skilled workmen from carefully selected leaf tobacco of the best obtain-: 
able quality and are in large demand by fine retail trade throughout 
this State and Pennsylvania, including a large and ever increasing local 
demand. The members of the firm are Messrs. John. Louis and Charles 
V. Hennessey, all of whom take an active and prominent part in the 
management of the business. They are practical manufacturers and 
pushing business men, who have built up a large and growing trade by 
the production of a superior line of cigars and the success they have 
met has been fully merited by their enterprising methods. 



P. E. FIELD, 

Fine Groceries. 99 Court Street. 

A prominent exponent of the grocery trade of Binghamton is the 
popular establishment of Mr. P. E. Field, which he has conducted for 
the past six years, the business having been founded a number of years 
previously. The premises utilized are spacious and attractively ap- 
pointed and are furnished with all conveniences for supplying a large 
trade. The stock carried is complete and carefully selected and in- 
cludes everything pertaining to staple and fancy groceries, provisions, 
fruits, etc. Specialties are made of Pillsbury's Best flour, the finest 
coffees and teas, choice country butter, fresh eggs and table delicacies 
of all kinds. The lowest prices prevail and the best value for nioney is 
guaranteed. Goods are delivered promptly to all parts of the city, and 
in all cases the service is courteous and satisfactory. Mr. Field is un- 
tiring in his efforts to please those who favor him with their patronage, 
and a large number of the best people in Binghamton are his steady and 
daily customers. 



118 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

STOW MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 

Manufacturers of the Stow Flexible Shaft and Machinery, 
Office and Factory, 44-3 State Street. 

This enterprise was instituted in 3 875 and its facilities embrace a 
large and well-equipped plant, which is comprised in a three-story brick 
building erected for the purpose and a suitable structure adjoining 
which is utilized for the manufacture of wire cables of any desired 
diameter or length. A 20-horse power steam engine operates the me- 
chanical equipment. The Stow Flexible Shaft and its appliances con- 
sist, in brief, of an enclosed wire cable firmly attached to a pulley or 
head piece at one end and holding a tool at the other, by the use of 
which the workman is enabled to carry the power to the work instead of 
being obliged to carry the work to the power. These flexible shafts are 
made in a variety of regular sizes and lengths and special lengths are 
made to order. They are applicable for a variety of uses, notably 
portable drilling, reaming, tapping, grinding, polishing, etc., and for 
wood-working they entirely replace the use of the bit and brace and 
heavy, cumbersome boring machines. For metal working or drilling 
heavy machinery which is too large or inconvenient to handle, the flex- 
ible shaft is invaluable, as it can be taken to the work in whatever posi- 
tion it may be. The company also manufacture a number of machines 
for special uses in connection with the flexible shafts, notably, flexible 
boring machines, portable drills capable of drilling over a wide extent 
of surface, center grinders, portable screw feed drill presses, pedestal 
drills, breast drills, tapping and reaming machines, radial boring ma- 
chines, originally designed for sash, door and blind makers, but now in 
use by all kinds of wood-workers, for which it is particularly adapted, 
and wood carving machines by means of which the use of hand tools is 
almost entirely dispensed with. All the dental shafts used by the S. F. 
White Dental Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia in their ma- 
chines, which are in use by dentists in all parts of the world, are made 
by this company. The Stow Flexible Shaft and its appliances meet all 
the requirements in the large field which they cover and they have no 
superiors anywhere. The management of the business is in the hands 
of Messrs. C. F. Hotchkiss and C. C. Warner. The company is to be 
congratulated upon the success which has attended its efforts in intro- 
ducing upon the market such a valuable invention. 



STICKLEY & BRANDT CHAIR COMPANY, 

Manufacturers of Artistic Chairs, 1 94- Washington Street. 

This enterprise was incorporated in 1891, and is the outgrowth of 
the modest business established in 1884 at Brandt. Pa., by Stickley 
Bros. It has since grown to be the largest fancy chair manufactory in 
the country, and it was the pioneer of this now great industry. The fa- 
cilities of the company embrace two large factories in this city which 
are fully equipped and furnish employment to 125 workmen. The prod- 
ucts consist of antique, artistic and fancy chairs finished in the highest 
style of the art, and upholstered in silk, plush, tapestry and other fine fab- 
rics. These are shipped to the trade throughout all parts of the United 
States. The officers of the company are Messrs. Schuyler C. Brandt, 
President; C. C. Jackson. Vice-President; F. A. Blakslee. Secretary and 
Treasurer, and Charles Stickley, General Manager. The trade will find 
this company wide-awake and fully abreast of the times, and relations 
with it will be found advantageous. 



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120 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

J. D. WHITE, 

Awnings, Tents and Flags, 9 1 1-2 State Street. 

The enterprise of Mr. J. D. White is one of great convenience and 
importance to Binghamton. It was founded in 1876. and has since en- 
joyed an annually increasing trade for its products, which extends 
throughout the city and surrounding towns. Tlie premises occupied are 
in every way complete for the work in hand and afford ample conven- 
iences for the prompt fulfillment of orders. Here are made awnings, 
tents, flags, horse, trunk and wagon covers, boat sails, net and canvas 
goods of every description, from the best materials by experienced work- 
men, and warranted to give satisfaction. A large stock of cotton duck 
of all widths is carried and is offered to patrons at low prices. A spec- 
ialty of the business is the decoration of buildings and halls with flags 
and bunting for festivals or other public demonstrations, and tents and 
canopies for connecting house doors with the street curb on special occa- 
sions, are rented at reasonable prices. Mr. White also takes down awn- 
ings in the fall and replaces them in the spring. Probably no other im- 
print is so often seen as that of this house, which may be found upon 
hundreds of awnings on all the principal streets of Binghamton. Mr. 
White has. by his promptness, reliability, and perfection of product,^ 
achieved a distinction in his line of trade peculiarly his own and which 
renders his establishment the leading one of its kind in Binghamton. 



JOHN J. MOSES, 

Wholesale Dealer in Wines, Liquors and Cigars, 1 57 Water Street. 

The wholesale establishment of Mr. John J. Moses is the headquar- 
ters for an important and constantly growing trade in wines and 
liquors, and the demand for fine and reliable goods is supplied by this 
house in a manner that has met with the highest commendation from 
the trade. This house was founded in 1883, and has since built up a 
trade that extends throughout a large section of Southern New York 
and Northern Pennsylvania. From its inception it has been the policy 
of its management to handle only the best goods, and in fact, there are 
no choicer wines and liquors to be obtained anywhere than those offered 
by Mr. Moses. In domestic goods the stock embraces fine Pennsylvania^ 
Monongahela, Monogram, Old Saratoga, and Private Stock whiskies, 
produced by the well-known firm of Rosskam. Gerottey & Co., for whom 
he is sole agent in this section of the country, also Pepper, I. W, Har- 
per, Keystone Malt, and other well-known brands of Bourbon, rye and 
wheat whiskies, as well as New York. Ohio and California wines and 
brandies. The stock of foreign goods of direct importation, embraces- 
G. H. Mumm & Co.'s champagnes, Calvet & Co."s clarets, Ivison sher- 
ries, Graham & Co.'s ports, and sweet and dry wines from the vintages 
of France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Holland, together with brandies, 
gins, Irish and Scotch whiskies, imported Bass and Alsopp's ale and 
Guinness' stout, etc. , which are offered to the trade in original packages, 
or in quantities to suit. Mr. Moses is agent for Strontia mineral spring 
water and Hungarian blackberry juice, and many other choice goods 
are to be obtained at the establishment. A special feature of the busi- 
ness is the trade in cigars, the leading brands of "Monogram," "Espa- 
nola," "H. A.," '•Wale. Whitman," and others being regularly handled, 
and extra inducements are offered in job lots of cigars, for which the 
house has special facilities for procuring. The reputation enjoyed by 
this house for the expeditious and discerning manner in which all orders 
are filled, merits the appreciation of the trade, and we commend the 
house to all who are fastidious in the selection of wines and liquors and 
cigars. 



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THE LOWELL BUSINESS COLLEGE AND INSTITUTE 
OF SHORT-HAND AND TELEGRAPHY, 

J. E. Bloomer, Principal and Proprietor, Corner Court and Collier Streets. 




The Lowell Business College and Institute of Short Hand and Tel- 
egraphy is not only one of the oldest, but is also entitled to rank as one 
of the very best institutions of the kind in the country. Established in 
1859 and conducted under its present proprietorship since 1888. it has 
during the period of its existence accomplished a great and good work 
and has become one of the steadfast educational institutions of the 
Empire State. Here students of both sexes have every advantage for 
obtaining a thorough business education and every modern facility is at 
hand for acquiring practical experience in the conduct of business mat- ■ 
ters and after the same methods that are in use in actual commercial 
establishments. The course of study embraces book-keeping, penman- 
ship, business correspondence, commercial law, arithmetic, banking, 
commission, exchange, transportation, wholesaling, merchandising, 
shipping, real estate and insurance, and actual office drill in all business 
departments, and banks and business offices are located in the college 
with all the books, papers, desks, furniture, letterpresses, etc.. that would 
be -in use in any regular business enterprise, and in the transaction of 
the business the student is taught to rely upon his own judgment and 
conduct all matters the same as if they were to be consummated by 
responsible parties. A marked advantage of this college lies in the fact 
that students of either sex may enter at any time and, as each student 



122 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



is given personal instruction, he is advanced as rapidly as his own abil- 
ities and perceptions admit, hence the brighter the student the more 
quickly will he acquire the coveted knowledge and experience. Special 
departments are also provided for teaching short hand, typewriting and 
telegraphy. The Graham system of phonography is taught and the 
use of Ave principal typewriters. A complete series of telegraph offices 
•connected by wire is maintained and thorough instruction is given in 
this art by a competent and experienced operator, so that a graduate of 
this department is competent to at once enter upon the active duties of 
a commercial or railroad telegraph office. The corps of teachers is made 
up of specialists, and are among the most able in their departments to 
be found in the country. As regards the location of the school in this 
•city no more healthful or advantageous point could have been selected 
and concerning the many advantages the Parlor City has to offer to 
students from a distance reference is made to the earlier portions of this 
volume where the many attractions of the city have been exhaustively 
treated. Mr. J. E. Bloomer, the principal and proprietor of the college, 
is a gentleman of large and varied experience as an instructor of youth; 
he was a teacher in the Binghamton public schools for two years and 
for seven years previous to his assuming control of the college was a 
member of its faculty. His scholarly abilities have gained for him a 
high reputation as one of the most successful teachers in the State. 
The Lowell Business College since its foundation has graduated hun- 
•dreds who have since become shining lights in the commerce and man- 
ufactures of the country, and the institution is commended by many of 
the leading statesmen, professional and business men of the State. 



STICKLEY & BRANDT, 

Furniture Dealers, 1 94- Washington Street. 

This house was founded in 1883 by Stickley Bros., the present firm 
having succeeded to the business in 1800. The warerooms of the firm 
have a floorage area of 37.000 square feet, two of the floors being each 
12dx70 feet, which form the largest furniture salesrooms in the State. 
The firm carry the largest stock of furniture in Binghamton and the 
finest goods in the market, and their facilities for procuring goods em- 
brace the exclusive agency for the products of the principal manufac- 
turers of Grand Rapids, Mich., as well as of other localities. In fine 
antique and artistic modern chairs and fancy rockers they offer the 
products of the Stickley & Brandt Chair Co. of this city. All uphol- 
stered furniture is manufactured on the premises, and a special and 
newly added department is that of fine draperies and upholstery, which 
is in charge of Mr. J, N. Piercy, who is an accomplished expert in this 
line. Among other specialties we note the Windsor folding beds and 
the Gunn combination beds. Though fine furniture is the specialty of 
this house the prices are very reasonable and no higher than inferior 
goods are sold for elsewhere. An important feature of the facilities of 
the firm is their ability to introduce customers to the most noted manu- 
facturers of furniture in New York and elsewhere, where selections can 
be made and the goods delivered here the same as if purchased from 
the firms' own warerooms, thus virtually afi^ording customers a selec- 
tion from the stock of the entire country. Twenty-five assistants are 
employed in the warerooms and every courtesy is shown to customers 
that modern business methods have made possible or progressive ideas 
originated. The members of the firm are Charles Stickley and Schuy- 
ler C. Brandt, who are also respectively president and general manager 
of the Stickly & Brandt Chair Co., noticed elsewhere. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON, 133 

ACME OIL CO., 

William Mason, Manager. Office, 1 8 Wall Street. Works, Erie Street. 

An important feature of the commercial facilities of this city is the 
enterprise of the Acme Oil Co., which is one of the largest producers of 
illuminating and lubricating oils in the country. The company's works 
in this city are located adjoining the tracks of the Erie railroad, which 
affords unsurpassed receiving and shipping facilities. The oils are re- 
ceived in bulk in tank cars from the company's relineries, located else- 
where, and are barreled here and supplied to the trade and large con- 
sumers. The accommodations for storing the products in this city are 
equal to the demands of a large trade, and in fact the company practi- 
cally controls the supply of illuminating oils in this section, shipments 
being made to dealers throughout Southern New York and Northern 
Pennsylvania. Only the best grades of oils are handled, which are 
furnished at current market rates. The company is accomplishing a 
good work in providing the trade with the most advanced facilities for 
procuring oils at a minimum cost, and at the same time is adding to the 
prestige of the city as a leading market and source of supply for first- 
class products. Much of the success of the company in this market is 
attributable to the able and efficient services of Mr. William Mason, 
manager of the business here, and its future growth and development 
give every promise of being coeval with those of Binghamton. 



SISSON BROS. & WELDEN, 

Dry Goods, Carpets, Millinery, Cloaks, Etc., 59 and 6 1 Court Street. 

There is always special interest attaching to old institutions, 
whether they be of national, municipal or mercantile character, and 
probably the most prominent of the latter class in Binghamton's busi- 
ness records is the old-established and extensive enterprise of Messrs. 
Sisson Bros. & Welden. This influential and well-known dry goods 
emporium, the largest enterprise of the kind in Binghamton, was 
founded over half a century ago by B. F. Sisson, the present firm hav- 
ing succeeded to the business in 1871. The premises occupied by the 
firm consist of a handsome four-story and basement stone front 
building, 50x100 feet in dimensions, which was erected with spe- 
cial reference for the business and is one of the architectural orna- 
ments of the main thoroughfare of the city. The entire estab- 
lishment is systematically divided into departments, the several 
floors being accessible by means of elevators. A particularly well 
supplied department is that of silks and dress fabrics, of which the 
firm carry the largest stock in this vicinity ; no other firm in the 
Southern Tier being so large purchasers of all kinds of silks, velvets 
and fine dress goods. Other noteworthy departments are those devoted 
to laces and erii broideries, cloaks, linens and housekeeping fabrics, do- 
mestic goods, ribbons, hosiery, ladies' and gentlemen's furnishings, 
millinery and trimmed hats, mourning goods, upholstery goods, carpets, 
rugs and floor cloths, exc. Every accommodation that modern business 
methods have rendered desirable has been provided patrons and goods 
are promptly delivered to all parts of the city and to trains for out-of- 
town customers. The patronage of the house is derived from this and 
the adjoining counties chiefly, and a considerable jobbing trade is also 
transacted with country merchants. Over one hundred clerks, sales- 
men and others find em])loyment with the firm and this fact alone is an 
evidence of the extensive nature of the firm's business. The members 
of the firm are Messrs. C. F. and W. W. Sisson and J. K. Welden. The 
firm is represented in the Board of Trade and is always active in all 
matters pertaining to the growth and prosperity of the city. 



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THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



HILLS, McLEAN & WILLIAMS, 

Importers and Retailers of Dry Goods, Carpets, Millinery, etc., Corner Court 

and Chenango Streets. 




An important feature of the dry goods trade of Binghamton is the 
house of Messrs. Hills, McLean & Williams, which in all that goes to 
make up a modern mercantile establishment, is su] passed either in ex- 
tent of stock or quality of goods by few. if any. similar houses in the 
state outside of New York City. This great ladies' bazaar has been an 
important factor in the commercial resources of this city for the past 
ten years, and its facilities, resources, and trade have grown until to- 
day they are surpassed by those of none other in the city. Three floors 
of the handsome iron building at the corner of Court "^ and Chenango 
streets, an illustration of which accompanies this article, are occupied. 
An elevator connects the several floors, and the whole is divided into 
numerous departments for the orderly display of the varied and compre- 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 125 

hensive stock carried. About sixty employes here find constant occu- 
pation under the supervision of competent heads of departments, each 
of whom in turn is responsible to the members of the firm who person- 
ally direct all tiie operations of the enterprise. Visitors will find the 
salesrooms elegantly appointed and decorated and completely fitted up 
with every modern improvement that will in any way save time or fa- 
cilitate the making of selections. In the retail transactions of the house 
the cash system is in vogue, as also the one price plan, which prove of 
mutual advantage to purchaser and salesman, as all goods are marked 
at lowest possible prices. The stock embraces a diversity simply impos- 
sible to describe in dry goods, fancy goods, carpets, draperies, face cur- 
tains, millinery, cloaks, furs, notions, trimmings, linens and cottons, 
silks, velvets, ladies' and gents' furnishing goods, lingerie and bijou- 
terie, hosiery and gloves, parasols and umbrellas, and in short every 
conceivable article of modern luxury, fashion and 'necessity that w^ould 
properly be included under these general headings. The house caters 
to no particular class, but welcomes all and provides for all, and the 
establishment is truly a popular one, for it caters to the whole people. 
The late E. D. Hills was greatly esteemed in this community and no 
man in the city was more respected during life or mourned after death 
by those who knew his kindly heart, strict integrity and noble and true 
character, than was he. Since his demise his associates. Messrs. Wm. 
M. McLean and C. R. Williams, have actively managed the business, 
though his loss will be long felt both by them and the patrons of the 
house. The splendid success of this house may be attributed to a strict 
adherence to every representation made, an honest system of advertis- 
ing and the provision for every want of the ladies at lowest possible 
prices. 



THE BINGHAMTON OIL REFINING CO., 

Petroleum Products, Binghamton, N. Y. New York Office, 1 4 and 1 6 

Desbrosses Street. 

The Binghamton Oil Refining Co.. instituted in 1872, forms an im- 
portant feature of the diversified character of the industrial resources 
of this city, and is the only enterprise of the kind in this section. The 
plant is fortuitously located upon a plot of ground, triangul; r in shape, 
and surrounded on its three sides by the tracks of the railroad system 
of the city, which afford the most complete shipping and receiving fa- 
cilities. The buildings, chiefly of brick, are several in number and are 
suitable for the processes of the industry, and equal to the demands of 
a large trade. The company are manufacturers of petroleum products, 
their specialties being lubricating oils and petrolina. or petroleum jelly. 
Illuminating oils are also produced. The crude petroleum is received 
by rail, in tank cars, direct from the oil w^ells, and is refined by what is 
known as the continuous process of distillation, the daily capacity of 
the works being about one hundred and sixty barrels of combined pro- 
ducts. The leading feature of the products is their superior excellence, 
the management having never entered the race for producing low- 
priced goods. The result has been that their productions have become 
recognized as the best of their kind on the market and they are in active 
and growing demand by the trade throughout an annually increasing 
and widely extended territory. Their lubricating oils are shipped gen- 
erally throughout the United States except to the Southern States, and 
their petrolina is in den^and throughout the three Americas, Great 
Britain. European countries. Australia, the Sandwich Islands and South 
Africa. Petrolina. the name given to petroleum jelly by this company, 



126 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



is put up in packages of all sizes and shapes, from a two-ounce vial to a 
barrel. It is of particularly excellent quality and commands the appre- 
ciation of a discriminating trade. The management of the business is 
in the hands of Messrs. John S. Wells and Edward E. Kattell. the for- 
mer being also a member of the firm of Shapley & Wells. Both 
gentlemen are prominently identified with the industrial progress of 
Binghamton. and their enterprise above briefiy sketched, is creditable 
alike to this city and themselves. 



ADDISON J. LYON, 

Manufacturer and Dealer in Lumber, 16 South Street. 

This enterprise was originally established about sixty years ago by 
Joshua Whitney and came into the proprietorship of Mr. Lyon in 1874, 
who is an experienced lumberman having formerly been engaged in the 
same business in Pennsylvania as early as 1856. The plant is located 
on the north bank of the Susquehanna river and covers an area of 
675x170 feet, upon which are erected a series of suitable buildings used 
for the manufacture of lumber direct from the logs and also a complete 
line of planing-mill lumber. The works are equipped with all the latest 
improved machinery, including saws, planers, matchers, etc., are 
operated by water power and furnish employment to about thirty work- 
men. Logs are floated down the river direct from the forests and are 
cut up into lumber, and the products of the planing-mill embrace build- 
ers" finish, flooring, siding, etc. In connection with the mill products a 
full stock of all kinds of lumber is also handled, including lath, shingles, 
mouldings, etc., and Mr. Lyon is also agent for the sale of the celebrated 
Paragon plaster in this market. Adjoining the mills are large and 
improved dry-kilns, lumber yards, storage sheds, office building, etc. 
and the stock handled is such as to fill all the wants of the building 
trade. The products of the mill embrace hemlock, pine, oak and other 
kinds of lumber, and the capacity of the mill is about 10,000 feet per day. 



THE BRADSTREET COMPANY, 

Mercantile Agency. 

The institution from which sprung the marvelous growth and 
prosperity of the Bradstreet Company had its origin during the remote 
and eventful year, 1849, its notable service to the mercantile community 
thus extending over this intervening period covering nearly half a cen- 
tury, and the lofty purposes of the organization, its practical uses, are 
broadly and fully comprehended and approved. Of one management, 
its innumerable force of employes and representatives acting in unison 
under a definite and eff'ective discipline, the ramifications of the Brad- 
street Company are world-wide, extending wherever within the bounds 
of civilization the conduct of trade is a factor, or the establishment of 
credit is recognized and adopted. Aside from the publication of the 
comprehensive volume of printed reports, the Mercantile Agency is the 
proprietor and publisher of "Bradstreet's", a journal devoted to the 
treatment and discussion of questions affecting trade, finance and polit- 
ical economy, whose authority in the industrial and commercial world 
is largely established. The Binghamton office of the Bradstreet Com- 
pany is under the direction of Mr. Morris S. Lewis, Superintendent, 
through whose administration the office has earned its reputation for 
reliability and accuracy: also, the care and judgment with which it 
pursues the investigation of credits. Binghamton merchants largely 
appreciate the advantyges of the Bradstreet Mercantile Agency, the 
majority of them subscribing for the books and reports of the company. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 127 

CORNWALL, REED & LANE, 

stock, Grain and Provision Brokers, Rooms 1 and 2 Hagaman Block. 

Few people whose attention has not been called directly to the sub- 
ject have any idea how extensive a business is transacted by residents 
of this city in the purchase and sale of stocks, bonds, grain, provisions, 
oil. etc., or how perfect are the facilities offered the public for this class- 
of legitimate trading by the well known brokerage house of Cornwall, 
Reed & Lane. They established themselves in Binghamton March 1, 
1891, and have a private wire connecting with their main offices in New 
York and Oil City, through means of which they are enabled to place 
orders for the purchase or sale of stocks, bonds, grain, provisions and 
oil, either on margin or for investment, with the same promptness ob- 
tainable were the customer on the floor of the several exchanges in per- 
son. To those wishing to make investments of this nature the firm 
offers their services, experience and judgment at the same rate of 
brokerage as is charged by all members of the exchanges. Full reports, 
quotations and information concerning and affecting home and foreign 
markets are received by telegraph constantly during business hours and 
are posted in the firm's offices for the benefit of patrons. Although so 
recently established in this city, the firm already enjoys the patronage 
of a large and constantly growing clientage, which embraces business- 
men, capitalists and speculators. All their operations are conducted 
upon the most liberal and advantageous terms for patrons. Correspon- 
dence from out of town investors is solicited, to which the prompt and 
advanced methods of the house insure satisfaction. This enterprise has 
come to be recognized as a marked feature in the commercial facilities 
of the city, and is commended to the public as thoroughly reliable and 
fair dealing. 

BINGHAMTON VENEER CO., 

Manufacturers of Perforated and Plain Chair Seats and Backs, 38 
Commercial Avenue. 

The Binghamton Veneer Co. is one of the latest additions to the 
manufacturing resources of this city, having been instituted in May, 
1891. Notwithstanding its youth, however, it has been conducted with 
such energy and enterprise and upon such progressive methods as to 
have already acquired a large and growing trade for its products that 
extends generally throughout the United States. The company's facil- 
ities for manufacturing, which it is contemplated to soon increase, em- 
brace the larger part of the building located as above indicated, which 
is fully equipped with all necessary tools and appliances operated by 
steam" power, employment being given to about ten workmen. The 
products of the company consist of perforated and plain chair seats and 
backs made from veneers, and also all kinds of glued-up wood made of 
birch, maple, ash. oak and cherry veneers. The location of the city 
being in close proximity to the mills in this state and Pennsylvania, 
where the veneers are manufactured, enables this company to procure 
their raw materials upon most advantageous terms, while the central 
location of the city, its unexcelled shipping facilities and abundant sup- 
ply of labor, combine in enabling the Binghamton Veneer Co. to offer 
the trade advantages in quality of goods and low prices difficult to pro- 
cure elsewhere. The members of the firm are Messrs. S. Hammond, 
Jr., G. W. Stone, A. F. Mann and E. S. Everts, all of whom take an 
active interest in the management of the business. The success of the 
Binghamton Veneer Co. is fully assured and is well merited. 



128 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

THE WHITNEY-NOYES SEED COMPANY, 

Binghamton, N. Y. 




Binghamton is the center of a very extensive trade in timothy and 
•clover seeds, and is one of the leading markets of the country for both 
domestic and exjiort business. This fact is largely due to the extensive 
enterprise of the Whitney-Noyes Seed Company. This company was 
incorporated in 1883. andbesides dealing largely in field seeds at whole- 
sale, conducts a special business of cleaning timothy and clover into 
uniform grades that in purity are unequalled. The complete separa- 
tion of weed seeds involves processes so difficult, and machinery so 
original and various, that the grades produced by this company are 
properly called manufactured products, and in this view we represent 
this establishment among the manufacturing industries. The factory 
and warehouses erected by Mr. Joseph P. Noyes for the use of the com- 
pany form one of the most extensive establishments in this city devoted 
to manufacturing purposes. The plant includes much special machin- 
■ery and valuable inventions owned and used exclusively by this com- 
pany. A well-equipped machine shop is maintained for the manufacture 
and" repair of machinery, tools, etc. An excellent water privilege sup- 
plies cheap "y an abundance of power (day and night when required), 
•and this aids greatly to do the cleaning at moderate cost. The company 
handles great quantities of field grass seeds in carload lots, received 
directly from the principal growing sections of the countiy, and dis- 
tributed to the trade in the Eastern and Middle States, and largely in 
Europe. Its chief specialty, however, is the pre duction and sale of high 
grades of seeds, of unequalled purity and uniformity, under its own 
brands which have become known as indicating the highest possible 
excellence in field grass seeds, and are now i?o accepted by the trade 
and consumers. Until the institution of this company's business, it 
was not possible to procure in any market timothy or clover seed that 
was freed from weed seeds. All liraothy and clover seeds, as generally 
.sold, whether called "Prime,'' "Choice," or "Fancy Re-cleaned," are 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 129 



more or less foul with weed seeds and other waste. The use of impure 
seeds causes great loss to the farmer, not only in the cost of that which 
is of no value, but still more by the propagation of weeds which injure 
the value of his product and exhaust his laud. The high grades of this 
company are not simply selections from occasional lots, but are special 
products upon which its extensive and annually increasing business 
has been established. These seeds are also sold at reasonable prices, 
and while of necessity they cost more than seeds containing a large 
proportion of weed seeds and waste, they are, in fact, much cheaper 
than usual qualities. The increased cost to the farmer in sowing the 
best seeds amounts to only about five cents per year per acre, while the 
value of the crop is increased from 25 to 50 per cent. This company's 
methods are the first and only ones that have ever secured the same re- 
sults, and those who have used its grades of timothy and clover have 
in every instance experienced the advantages of pure seeds. This com- 
pany believes that its products are absolutely unequalled in the world; 
that "the best goods are cheapest;" that '•there is room at the top,'' and 
it proposes to earn its money and to command increasingly the patron- 
age of the most intelligent buyers of seeds. Binghamton possesses great 
advantages as a favorable location for the prosecution of an enterprise 
of this character, and with its trunk line railways, reaching out into 
every part of the great West, the seeds of all producing sections are 
naturally shipped here and distributed to consumers in the most direct 
and favorable way. Dealers requiring carloads of assorted kinds can 
find no other market where equal advantages are obtainable. See map 
page 2. 



B. H. NELSON & SON, 

Private Bankers, Nelson Block. 

Binghamton, highly favored in many ways, is no more so than in 
the number and high character of her financial institutions. One of the 
most recent additions to her banking interests is the private banking 
house of Messrs. B. H. Nelson & Son, which is the only bank located on 
the north side of the city and is the only enterprise in the city embrac- 
ing all that the caption of this article miplies. It Was instituted Janu- 
ary 1, 1890, by Mr. B. H. Nelson and his son, Mr. George R. Nelson, the 
senior member of the firm having been for a number of years previously 
actively engaged in the wholesale fruit business. The firm enjoys every 
facility for covering each branch of their business and they already en- 
joy the distinction of being among the most prominent private bankers, 
underwriters and real estate agents of the city. In the banking de- 
partment a legitimate business is done. Deposits are received, payaljle 
on demand, commercial paper is discounted, collections are made at all 
points and foreign and domestic exchange is bought and sold. The 
principal correspondents of the bank are the Seaboard National Bank 
and the Western National Bank of New York City, and through these, 
banks in all parts of the Union are reached. In the insurance depart- 
ment fire policies only are issued and the risks covered by the most 
staple insurance companies doing business in this State ; they include 
the North British and Mercantile Ins. Co. of London and Edinburgh, 
Eagle Fire Ins. Co. of New York, the Jersey City Insurance Co. and the 
United States Insurance Co. In real estate the firm buy, sell and ex- 
change real property of all kinds, and now have on their books many 
choice central and suburban improved properties, as well as vacant lots 
for all purposes. Mr. B. H. Nelson is also a director of the Merchants' 
Bank of this city ; he is an esteemed citizen, prominently identified Avith 



130 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



the growth and prosperity of Binghamton and a member of the Board of 
Trade. The enterprise the firm are conducting is an important con- 
venience to its own immediate locality as well as proininent factor of 
the commercial and industrial advancement of the whole community. 
The handsomely appointed offices of the firm, located on the ground 
floor of the Nelson Block, are conveniently arranged for the business^ 
and the bank enjoys the esteem and consideration of a large and grow- 
ing list of customers, who number many of the prominent manufactur- 
ers, merchants and capitalists of this thriving city. 



SOMETHING FOR BOARDS OF TRADE, 
A USEFUL BOOK. 

By F. Newell Gilbert. 

Under the comprehensive title of "Forms and Laws for the Organi- 
zation and Successful Management in every State and the Dominion of 
Canada, of Boards of Trade, Village Improvement Societies. Business^ 
Men's Associations and Chambers of Commerce." Mr. F. New^ell Gilbert, 
Secretary of the Binghamton, N. Y. Board of Trade, and attorney-at- 
law, has published a most useful book with separate supplement, whick 
contain a vast amount of information, which make the books invalua- 
ble for the organizations above named as well as for every business 
man. The books contain various forms and styles of attractive adver- 
tising matter used by associations in the East, West and South, a list 
of manufacturers who are considering a change of location, induce- 
ments offered by cities to manufacturers, plans for model factory, plans 
for opera house, lists of prominent architects, prominent manufacturers- 
of fire department supplies, bridges, road machines, contractors for pav- 
ing and sewerage, etc., and much other matter that will be found useful 
to all city and village associations of whatsoever character. The books 
are forwarded by mail to address upon receipt of one dollar, by the pub- 
lisher, F. Newell Gilbert, Secretary Binghamton Board of Trade, Bing- 
hamton, N. Y. 



HANRAHAN BROS., 

Wholesale Dealers in Wines and Liquors, 1 68 Washington St. 

An important and growing factor of the wholesale trade of Bing- 
hamton is the enterprise of Messrs. Hanrahan Bros., which from its in- 
ception has been recognized as headquarters for fine wines and liquors. 
The firm occupy commodious premises where they carry a large and 
carefully selected stock of fine American and foreign wines and liquors, 
embracing brandies, rums, gins, whiskies, and sweet and dry wines 
from the most celebrated manufacturers of the old and new worlds. 
The firm are agents for H. H. Shufeldts & Co.'s standard gins and whis- 
kies,the Hannis Distilling Co.'s Mount Vernon Distillery, and Moore & 
Sinnott's Gibson and Excelsior rye whiskies, which are well known tO' 
the trade and consumers as being the best in the market. American 
whiskies are also kept in store in the bonded warehouses in the states- 
where manufactured, and are sold either free or in bond, and are 
withdrawn as the exigencies of the trade demand. All goods are pro- 
cured direct from manufacturers and first hands and are offered to the 
trade at lowest prices compatible with quality. The trade of the house 
extends throughout a large part of New York and Pennsylvania and is 
annually increasing in volume. The members of the firm are Messrs. 
Edward M. and James L. Hanrahan, both progressive business men 
and closely identified with the growth of the commercial resources of 
Binghamton. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



131 



BUNDY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 

Manufacturers of Time Recorders and Watchmen's Clocks, 
4-0 Commercial Avenue. 



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A recent acquisition to the manufacturing facilities of Binghamton 
and one altogether distinct from other industries here is that of the 
Bundy Manufacturing Company, which was incorporated in 1889 for 
the purpose of manufacturing the celebrated automatic workmen's time 
recorders, the Auburn watchmen's clock and fire alarm and other 
mechanical devices for automatically recording various matters. The 
officers of the company are Messrs. George E. Green, prest., J. P. Fie- 
big, vice-prest., Harlow E. Bundy, treas. and manager. A. Ward Ford, 
sec'y, and W. L. Bundy, supt, the latter also being the inventor of 
the company's specialties. The Bundy automatic time recorder is a 
simple, accurate and economical mechanical device by means of which 
a record is made, in a permanent printed form, of the hour and minute 
at which persons arrive and depart in the morning, at meal times, or at 
any time, day or night. It is invaluable in factories, shops, stores and, 
in fact, every establishment where luen's time is required to be noted. 
By the use of the Bundy automatic recorder no time-keeper is required 



132 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

since every man is his own time-keeper, no errors can be made in book- 
ing time, no disputes can occurr as to accuracy, no jealousy is possible 
between time-keepers and employes, neither can there be collusion 
between them and there is no expense for time-keepers' salary. The 
machine is pei'fectly made, is durable, the number of times in which it 
will make the register being practicably illimitable. The machine has 
met with great favor both with employers and employes and is now in 
dail}^ use by hundreds of prominent business houses in all parts of the 
country, a list of which, to whom reference is made, will be forwarded 
to anyone desiring to investigate the practical workings and advantages 
of the recorder. Another specialty of the company is the "Auburn" 
watchmen's register and fire alarm, which is indorsed by fire insurance 
companies and boards of underwriters and is the only system combin- 
ing a watchman's detector, fire alarm, with and without the thermostat 
systein and superintendent's alarm. This register besides showing on 
a paper dial whether the watchman has performed his duties, also is 
furnished with an attachment which will ring a bell in the house of the 
proprietor or superintendent, should the watchman neglect for any 
cause to start on his rounds at five, ten or any desired number of min- 
utes after the hour. The company are also about introducing another 
new electrical watchman's clock, which will embody several new and 
desirable features. Their products are daily growing in demand in the 
United States where they are everywhere recognized as the perfection 
of simplicit}^ efficiency and economy, and they are also about introduc- 
ino- them into Australia. 



HIRSCHMANN BROTHERS, 

Importers and Dealers in Dry Goods, Millinery, Fancy Goods, Cloaks, Etc., 

1 5 and 1 7 Court Street. 

This enterprise w^as founded in ] 858. and has occupied its present 
extensive premises since 1865. While exceeded in age by one other 
similar establishment in Binghamton, it may well lay claim to being 
the first to afford the public of this city and vicinity with those modern 
facilities and advantages which are now recognized as necessary by all 
progressive emporiums of this. character. In 1865 the continued growth 
of their business necessitated more room than was then at their disposal 
and their present extensive quarters were arranged for their occupancy. 
The premises consist of three floors, each 66x300 feet in dimensions, 
affording a total floorage area of 40,000 square feet. The whole estab- 
lishment is conveniently arranged, handsomely appointed and supplied 
with all modern improvements. The stock embraces literally everything 
in the way of ladies' goods, dry goods, fancy goods, underwear, hosiery, 
cloaks, men's furnishings, laces, linguerie, housekeeping linens and 
cottons, toilet articles, notions, millinery, etc. The patronage of the 
house is derived from the city and towns and villages in t^outhern New 
York and Northern Pennsylvania, and prompt attention is given to 
mail orders, inquiries answered and prices quoted. The magnificent 
show windows of the house, on the inain thoroughfare of the city, are 
a most prominent feature of the business enterprise of the firm, and 
attract the attention of both residents and strangers. The firm is rep- 
resented on the board of directors of the Board of Trade and is always 
active in all matters pertaining to the growth and prosperity of the 
city. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 133 

CALLAHAN & DOUGLAS, 

Hardware, 55 Court St. 

A prominent representative of the trade facilities of Binghamton 
is the hardware house of Messrs. Callahan & Douglas, which was estab- 
lished in 1880, and has since built up a large and annually increasing 
trade, which gives ample promise for greater growth in the future. 
The premises utilized are comprised in a commodious and centrally lo- 
cated store and basement, with an ample warehouse in the rear for stor- 
ing surplus and heavy stock. The facilities possessed by the firm enable 
them to offer the best inducements to the public, and the experienced 
knowledge of the proprietors with the wants of the market insures the 
handling of a class of goods which gives general satisfaction. The firm 
enjoy intimate relations with manufacturers, importers and first 
hands, and the favorable terms secured, owing to large operations, 
combine to enable the firm to offer the best goods at the lowest prices. 
The stock includes everything m the way of builders' and shelf hard- 
ware, mechanics' tools, house furnishing goods, etc., and a specialty is 
made of fine cutlery and mechanics' tools in which departments the 
variety carried is unusually large and attractive. The business policy 
of the house is based upon enterprise, liberality and fair dealing, and 
relations formed with it are sure to prove advantageous. The mem- 
bers of the firm are Messrs. J. H. Callahan and J. J. Douglas, both 
young men who are determined to gain patronage by all honorable 
methods, and by conserving the interests of their customers in all avail- 
able ways. 



CORNELL, DAVIS & SHEAR, 

Grocers, 250 Chenango Street. 

The widely recognized leaders in the grocery trade of the North 
Side are Messrs. Cornell, Davis & Shear, whose handsomely appointed 
and attractively furnished establishment is a model of system and order 
and veritable gold mine of good things in the way of family table sup- 
plies and delicacies. That it pays to be enterprising and progressive is 
evidenced by the growth of this firm's business, which bids fair to dis- 
tance those of all rivals in amount of sales, as it already has done in 
advanced methods. This house was founded in 1870 by Cornell & Davis, 
the present firm succeeding in April, 1891, at which date they first occu- 
pied the present commodious store, and since which time they have 
largely increased their trade as well as the scope of their operations. 
Their establishment now is in all respects the equal of the most ad- 
vanced metropolitan groceries. The store and basement, each 100 feet 
deep, are completely filled with an endless variety of the best goods in 
the market, and embrace many articles which can be obtained in per- 
fection here only. They make a specialty of fine teas and coffees, 
canned goods, fiour. salt meats, sugar and molasses and fresh baker's 
supplies, while in staple and fancy goods they carry everything known 
to the trade and goods from every clime and every country. As for the 
prices, they are absolutely as low as it is possible to make them, and in 
many cases the best quality of goods are sold at a less price than in- 
ferior goods are furnished for by others. An inspection of the store and 
stock will be found advantageous to all, whether in search of value for 
money or choice goods. The aim of the firm has always been to merit 
patronage by giving customers the greatest inducements in prices, 
quality of goods and prompt service, and that they have succeeded none 
will doubt who once enter their attractive store. 



134 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 




BiNGHAMTON CUTLERY CO., 

Manufacturers of Pocket Cutlery, and Importers of Fine Razors, 
Office, 215 Washington Street. 

This enterprise 
Avas originally in- 
stituted a t Rich- 
mond, Ind., about 
eight years ago, 
and was removed 
to this city in 1888. 
The products of the 
company embrace 
an almost unlim- 
ited number of 
styles, sizes and kinds of pocket knives, which under the stamp, "The 
Very Best," fully vindicate the claims of the maker by their uniform 
high quality. The aim of the company has always been to produce the 
best goods in the market, goods for all purposes and for everybody. 
All their products are made throughout by experienced workmen, and 
the blades are hand-forged from Wardlow's English steel, which is 
everywhere recognized as the best steel produced in the world for cut- 
lery. The knife blades are all finely edged and ready for use, and are 
warranted to be exactly as represented or money will be refunded. The 
company puts up everything in the way of pocket cutlery, and also 
handles at wholesale fine razors of their own importation. They are 
also headquarters for the Ohio Co-operative Shear Company, whose 
products they supply to the trade at manufacturers' prices. The trade 
of the house extends throughout a large section of New York and Penn- 
sylvania, and in the Western States generally, and is annually increas- 
ing in volume. The Binghamton Cutlery Company is fully abreast of 
the times in all that could add to the high quality of. their products or 
tend to decrease the cost of production, and the trade will find upon en- 
tering into business relations with it that advantages will accrue diffi- 
cult to procure elsewhere. Mr. J. M. Hanford, the enterprising propri- 
etor of the establishment, is an expert in the production of fine cutlery, 
and is well and widely known to the trade as a progressive and fair 
dealing business man. 



BENNETT MANUFACTURING CO., 

Manufacturers of Overalls, Fine Woolen Shirts, Pants, Etc., 
1 74 and 1 76 Water Street. 

The Benu'^tt Manufacturing Company was instituted in 1884. and 
since the death of its founder, Mr. Abel Bennett, in 1890. has been con- 
ducted under the active management of Mr. Fred. Bennett, the surviving 
partner. The manufacturing plant is comprised in a five-stoiy brick 
building -tt x 100 feet in dimensions, and is equipped with about 150 sew- 
ing machines, and all other appliances for the economical production of 
superior goods. About two hundred operatives are furnished employ- 
ment in the factory and an 80-horse power steam engine furnishes the 
motive force for the mechanical equipment. The products of the house 
consist of overalls, fine woolen shirts, pants, sack coats, etc., which are 
made from the best materials by careful workmen, and are everywhere 
recognized by the trade as being unsurpassed for quality, finish, style, 
durability and general excellence. The company's trade extends to all 
parts of the United States and is annually increasing in volume. About 
1,000 dozen garments are produced weekly. The enterprise is a prom- 
inent factor in the general thrift of this community. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 135 

CHARLES W. SEARS, 

Books, Stationery and Paper Hangings, 5 1 Court Street. 

The oldest book-store, as well as the most prominent, in Bingham- 
ton, is that of Charles W. Sears, which was originally founded as long 
ago as 1840. the present proprietor having been connected with its man- 
agement since 1855, and in sole control since 18G3. The premises occu- 
pied are centrally located, commodious, and well adapted for the tran- 
saction of a very extensive business. The stock embraces all the new 
books from the leading American and English publishers, and covers 
every department of literature, history, science, biography, poetry, 
travel, fiction, theology, mechanics, agriculture, and in fact every sub- 
ject to be found in a first-class book-store. Rare old books, French and 
German literature, are also to be found here, as well as school books, bi- 
bles, hymnals, blank books, fine stationery and periodical literature of 
all descriptions. A special department is devoted to paper hanging, and 
this stock includes a large variety of wall papers and mural decorations, 
from the cheapest grades to the most elaborate and expensive imported 
goods. In these days of rapid printing, no single establishment in the 
world could carry copies of all publications, but any book or periodical 
not in stock at this store will be promptly procured and supplied at pub- 
lisher's price. Mr. Sears has always conducted the business with en- 
ergy and discriminating judgment and the success he has attained is as 
well merited as it is prominent. 



BINGHAMTON DAIRY ASSOCIATION, 

Dealers in Dairy Products, 7 O State St. 

The Binghamton Dairy Association was incorporated April 1, 1891, 
with a capital stock of $25,000, for the purpose of supplying the resi- 
dents of Binghamton and vicinity with pure and unadulterated dairy 
products of the best quality and at prices that would command atten- 
tion for fairness and liberality. The stock of the association is taken by 
producers of milk in this vicinity, who thus find a steady and increasing 
outlet for their products at market prices, and the profits upon the sale 
direct to the consumer is thus returned to them instead of being monopo- 
lized by middlemen, while the public is benefitted by the assured high 
quality and purity of the milk obtained. The association now occupies 
the store and basement, located as above indicated, as the headquarters 
of the business. The equipment embraces an elevator for handling the 
milk cans, coolers for milk, separator for cream, churns, etc., which are 
operated by a 15-horse power steam engine, employment being furnished 
to seventeen assistants in the several departmentsas wellas toanumbei- 
of horses for delivery purposes. The association receives large quanti- 
ties of milk daily from the stockholders, which is supplied to customers 
in all parts of the city, the surplus being made into fine dairy butter. 
The efforts of the association have met with prompt appreciation from 
the community and its success has been an assured one from its incep- 
tion, so much so that already a plot of ground at 98 Washington street 
has been purchased, upon the rear of which has been built a brick barn 
two-story and basement, 95 feet long and 53 feet wide, and an ice-house 
adjoining large enough to supply an abundance of ice, and it is contem- 
plated to soon erect a large block on the Washington street front suit- 
able for the purposes of the business. The officers of the association 
are Messrs. P. H. Shafer, president; James D. Blakeslee, vice-president; 
J. E. Rogers, secretary and treasurer, and R. W. AVright, superinten- 
dent, to whose earnest efforts and able management the credit for the 
establishment and success of the enterprise is largely due. 



136 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

EBBLIE & RIDER, 

Jobbers of 5 and 1 O Cent Goods, 84- Court and 1 05 Collier Streets. 

Improvements in machinery and methods of manufacture of late 
years have resulted in the production of ;ilmost endless numbers of small 
and large articles of use, ornament and necessity in the household at 
such prices as place them within the reach of all, and great enterprises- 
have grown up devoted to their collection and sale, which have come to 
be known as five and ten-cent stores. Binghamton is not behind her 
sister cities in the possession of a well equipped enterprise of this char- 
acter. Messrs. Ebblie & Rider opened their five and ten-cent store here 
in August last, and have commodious premises fronting on two streets, 
where they carry a large and complete stock, embracing a multitudinous 
variety of articles, and covering nearly every line of goods manufac- 
tured. The chief specialties are household utensils and ornaments, and 
the housekeeper will find here many articles indispensable in the house 
at prices impossible to be obtained elsewhere. The firm enjoy a large 
and increasing patronage, and they also do a considerable jobbing trade. 
New goods and novelties are constantly being received, and it is really 
a wonder what handsome and useful things may be obtained here for 
the nominal prices of five or ten cents. 



GEORGE L. PARKER, 

Dealer in Lehigh Valley Coal. Office, 9 Ross Building: Yard 39 Liberty St. 

This is one of the leading establishments in the city in the coal 
trade. The yard at Liberty street on the Erie railroad, has the best im- 
proved facilities for receiving, storing, handling and delivering the 
•'black diamonds." Trains of cars are run onto the trestle under cover 
and the contents of the cars are dumped directly into pockets under each 
car, each size in the proper place; wagons are backed under the pockets, 
and the coal, passing over screens, is ready for the consumer. Mr. 
Parker is the only dealer in the city who is supplied by the Lehigh Val- 
ley Coal Company, or to whom their product is shipped, so he controls 
the sale of the famous "L. V.." and is assured that the rapidly increas- 
ing business he has is because he sells only "the Brightest, the Cleanest, 
the Best." He introduced, and has. the only coal yard in Binghamton 
that delivers with the Eureka wagon, which unloads without shovel- 
ing, thereby saving time and avoiding much of the usual noise and 
breakage. Those who deal with Mr. Parker always find that he takes 
the greatest care to deliver orders promptly and in good order, and fur- 
nishes the best coal in quality, size and preparation. His office in the 
Ross building is very central, and with his telephone. 305 there, and 353 
at the yard office, those wishing to purchase coal of him will find it a 
very convenient matter. 

C. M. CLAPP, 

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Boots, Shoes and Rubbers, 
37 Court Street. 

The most prominent retail shoe store in Binghamton is that of Mr. 
C. M. Clapp. which also transacts an extensive wdiolesale trade that ex- 
tends throughout a considerable part of New York and Massachusetts. 
This house was founded in ]8?0. and at one time combined manufactur- 
ing with the other departments of the business ; this, however, has been 
discontinued of late. The stock carried is the largest of the kind in the 
city, and embraces the very finest grades of shoes for men. women and 
children that are manufactured, as well as a general line of serviceable- 
goods for the masses. All goods are procured direct from the manufac- 
turers and in large quantities, many lines being made to order expressly 



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for the trade of the house, and by reason of its large transactions th& 
lowest possible prices prevail in all cases. Equal inducements aie also 
afforded dealers, chief among which may be mentioned the fact that 
from this stock sizes may be sorted up without waiting for goods to be 
made, and orders are filled with promptness, whether lor large or &mall 
quantities. The house is well known to retail buyers as a leader in 
fashions, and its success is as well merited as it is pronounced. 



MORGAN, AINSWORTH & CARROLL, 

Real Estate and Insuranca, 1 20 State St. Room 1 6. 

The recently organized 
firm of Morgan. A ins- 
worth & Carroll is the 
direct successor of the 
old-established insurance 
agency founded in 1846 
byS. H.Hall. Mr. Julius 
P. Morgan, the head of 
the firm, has been en- 
gaged in the business 
since ISGl, and the other 
two members were for- 
merly in partnership to- 
gether in a similar enter- 
prise. The combination 
of the two agencies brings 
to the new firm a list of 
irrsurance organizations 
that cannot be excelled 
for strength, reliability 
and honorable dealing. 
The transactions of the 
office also cover all 
branches of the real es- 
tate business, including 
purchase, sale, lease and 
exchange of busirress and 
residence properties, va- 
cant city lots, tracts, 
farms, etc. Thev control 
the sale of the J. E. Ely 
tract, situated in the East 
End, and also have a number of choice lots in a tract at Rossville, as 
well as others in various sections of the city. The companies repre- 
sented embrace the Home of New York, Connecticut of Hartford. Lan- 
cashire of Manchester, British American of Toronto. Phoenix of Brook- 
lyn, Niagara of New York, Queen of Liverpool, Northern of London, 
Scottish Union & National of Edinburgh. Lion Fire of London, Orient 
of Hartford, Dutchess County Mutual of Poughkeepsie. Williamsburgh 
City of Brooklyn, Traders' of Chicago, Westchester of New York. New 
York Bowery of New York aird Fidelity & Casualty of New York. The 
above list may be said to represent many millions of dollars which 
stand ready to indemirify the firm's clients fi om loss, aird the prompt 
adjustment of every honest claim is characteristic of their business 
policy. The members of the firm are Messrs. Julius P. Morgan, Albert 
A. A ins worth and Louis A. Carroll, all pushirrg business men and well 
qualified for the successful maintenance of their enterprise. 




138 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



JUDSON S. NEWING, 

Manufacturing Jeweler and Optician, 1 38 Court Street. 

Ever since the inception of this enterprise, in 1881, it has enjoyed a 
high reputation for artistic work, and acquired a trade that extends 
throug-hout Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania, and is 
annually increasing in volume. A commodious and handsomely ap- 
pointed store is occupied as salesrooin, with another floor for manufac- 
turing purposes. The latter is fully equipped with all necessary tools, 
machinery and appliances and furnishes employment for from six to ten 
skilled workmen. In the salesroom a department for optical goods is an 
important feature, and Mr. Newing is an expert and skillful optician. 
He also carries a fine and well selected stock of jewelry, watches and 
clocks which are offered to the public at lowest prices. In the manu- 
facturing department, the products consist chiefly of badges, emblems, 
jewels for societies and secret orders, presentation medals and memor- 
ials and jewelry of special design to order, mounting and setting 
diamonds, and other precious stones and general repairing. A most 
•enviable reputation for high-class and artistic work, promptness and 
reliability has been attained. which bids fair to continue to expand with 
the growth of the industrial resources of this city. 



LOWELL HARDING & SON, 

Buyers of Hides, Skins, Raw Furs and Tallow, 200 Water St. 

One of the commer- 
cial landmarks of this 
city is the above men- 
tioned enterprise, which 
for over half a century 
has contributed greatly 
to the wealth and repu- 
tation of Binghamton. 
It was founded in 1836 
at Albion, Mich.. Mr. 
Harding. Sr.. removing 
tothiscity inMay, 1839, 
since which time it has 
been continuously con- 
ducted by Mr. Harding 
and his sons, Theodore 
and George L. Harding, 
the former having been 
associated with his 
father from 1808 to 1876, 
the latter having been 
admitted to an interest 
in the business during 
the present year. The 
premises occupied for 
the business are em- 
braced in one of the 
most complete and con- 
venient establishments 
of its kind in the coun- 
try. It is a handsome 
four-story and basement building 2-^x100 feet in dimensions, erected in 
189L and owned by Mr. L. Harding. The operations of the house em- 
brace the collection and purchase of hides and skins of all kinds, raw 




THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 139 

furs and tallow, which are procured from the producing centers of the 
-country and are shipped to the trade in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, 
Buffalo and Trenton chiefly. The highest market cash prices are paid 
for any thing in these lines and consignments from merchants and 
others are solicited. Mr. George L. Harding attends to all buying of. 
goods on the road and covers a large territory, transacting an annual 
business that would do credit to much larger cities. In the buying and 
handling of raw furs, this house stands among the largest and best 
known in the state. 



WILLIAM H. MOSHER, 

Fine Family Groceries, 42 Court Street. 

A visit to the popular and centrall}^ located grocery store of Mr. 
William H. Mosher will develop the fact that the residents of Bing- 
hamton and vicinity are here provided with advantages for procuring 
the choicest food supplies, equal to those offered the public in metropoli- 
tan centers. This house was founded in 1803 and has always been rec- 
ognized as a leader in its line. The stock is particularly desirable, 
choice and varied, and a specialty is made of handling fine and rare 
goods. It includes the finest delicacies from all parts of the United 
tStates and many foreign lands, such as olives from Spain, sardines from 
France, cheese from Holland and England, condiments and sauces from 
Great Britain, and in fact all sorts and descriptions of delicious and 
tempting delicacies, pickled and potted meats, canned goods, mustards, 
curries, preserves, etc., that will tempt a sated appetite or please a nor- 
mal one. In domestic products, the stock embraces everything in the 
way of staple and fancy groceries demanded by a first-class trade, and 
it will be found that if the best goods and reasonable prices are wanted, 
they can be obtained of this old-established and well-known house in 
perfection. The trade of the house is among th,e l^est families of the 
city and is constantly increasing in volume. The house has attained a 
high rank in the trade conveniences of the city, and its success and 
prominence is well merited. 



A. S. PATTEN & BROTHER, 

Dealers in Provisions, 1 58 and 1 60 Washington Street. 

The enterprise of Messrs. A. S. Patten & Brother was established 
in 1808 by A. S. Patten; the present firm, composed of the founder and 
Mr. W. E. Patten, having been organized in 1875. The premises occu- 
pied as headquarters for ttie business are embraced in a four-story build- 
ing 3:^x70 feet in dimensions. The ground floor is used as the retail 
salesroom and is attractively and handsomely fitted up and furnished, 
forming a marked and agreeable contrast to many other places used for 
a similar purpose. Here everything has been provided that could in 
any way add to the high character of the food supplies handled or would 
tend to absolute cleanliness in handling them. A ten-ton Hendrick 
Pontifex refrigerating machine, which gives an absolute cold, dry air 
to all their cooling rooms, is one of the conveniences, and every part of 
the establishment has an air of complete neatness and orderly system. 
The upper floors are used for storage and packing purposes and for cur- 
ing hams. The firm deal in all kinds of fresh and salt meats, beef, pork, 
lamb, mutton, hams, lard, sausages, poultry and game in season. Only 
the best qualities of provisions are furnished patrons and the high repu- 
tation of the firm has resulted in a large and important trade, embracing 
the principal hotels and restaurants and largely with private families 
in all parts of the city, prompt deliveries being a feature of the business. 



140 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



W. J. CARVER, 

Dairy Products, 7 Main Street. 

An important feature of the trade accommodations of this city is 
the milk depot of W. J. Carver, which he instituted in 1885, and has 
"since conducted with annually increasing trade and influence. The 
headquarters of the business are embraced in two floors, each 25x75 feet 
in dimensions, which are fully equipped with late improved appliances 
and apparatus for the successful conduct of the business, and the equip- 
ment includes creameries, separators, churns, etc. The business is both 
wholesale and retail in character, and four wagons are kept constantly 
in commission, three of which supply retail customers and one supplies 
the wholesale trade. The products handled consist of pui-e milk and 
cream, buttermilk and creamery butter, which are furnished to cus- 
tomers fresh daily. Only absolutely pure milk is handled, and the re- 
lations of the house with producers are such that an almost unlimited 
demand can be supplied. The surplus stock is made into butter, of 
which about twelve tons annually are manufactured, six tons being 
supplied to city customers, and the balance being disposed of in New 
York. No articles of food are so universally appreciated when fresh 
and pure as milk and butter, and the public may feel certain that those 
procured at this establishment are up to the highest possible standard. 

HUMES & SMITH, 

Fine Groceries, Main Street. 




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Wilkinson Brothers' Block, Corner Main and Front Streets. 

This enterprise was founded in 1886, and so great, indeed, is its 
trade as to make its operations wholesale in character though supplying 
the trade at retail. The premises now occupied by the firm are at the 
southeast corner of Main and Front street, but upon the completion of 
the new Wilkinson block on the opposite corner, the business will be re- 
moved there, where increased room and accommodations will be afforded. 
The stock is of the finest selection and includes choice teas, coffees, 
spices, condiments and sauces, table delicacies, domestic and imported 
canned goods, pickles, preserves, potted meats and game, and in fact, 
everything in these lines of the best and most celebrated manufacture. 
A specialty is made in the firm's Delmonico blend coffee, which is in in- 
creasing and popular demand, and all their coffees are warranted the 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 141 

very best that money can buy, and they are fresh roasted every week. 
Other specialties are Maud S. flour, which is confidently recommended 
as unsurpassed. Miss Larrabee's celebrated home-made cookies, fresh 
every day, and C. P. Ball's celebrated Excelsior creamery butter in five 
pound packag-es. The trade of the house extends throughout the county, 
and so marked and steady has been its growth that it is entitled to be 
numbered among the leading concerns of the kind in the State. The 
members of the firm. Messrs. E. M. Humes and M. S. Smith are both 
progressive merchants and popular citizens. 



LEWIS HOUSE, 

William Shanley, Proprietor, Prospect Ave. cor. Lewis St. 

The Lewis House has long been recognized as one of the best two- 
dollar-a-day hotels in New York state, and in fact it is not surpassed in 
any essential characteristic by any other hotel wheresoever located. It 
is conveniently and pleasantly situated but a few steps distant from 
the passenger stations of the railroads centering here, and is in close 
proximity to the business center of the city. Having a frontage on three 
streets, every room in the building is light and airy, and its spacious 
piazzas become a favorite resting place during the summer months, 
for the guests of the house in the cool of the evening at the close of a 
hot day. The hotel is heated by steam and lighted by gas and electric- 
ity, and the sanitary arrangements are constructed after the most mod- 
ern and improved methods, making the hotel one of the best drained 
and most healthful in the city. The office and dining room are on the 
ground floor, and the rooms for guests, of which there are about one 
hundred, are tastefully and handsomely furnished and are comfortable 
and cheerful sleeping apartments. As regards the cuisine, we can only 
say that it is fully up to the standard of modern first-class hotels, along 
with the additional advantages often unattainable in great cities — of an 
abundance of pure dairy products and fresh fruits and vegetables, 
which are obtained from the near-by farms and dairies, for which 
Broome county is widely noted. For accommodation of commercial 
travelers who prefer it, a large and light room on the main street of the 
city is provided for use as a sample room. Mr. William Shanley. the 
proprietor, has a large and pleasant acquaintance with the traveling 
public, and his hotel is always full during the season. 



GEORGE W. BEARDSLEY, 

Dealer in Leather and Findings, Etc., I 50 State Street. 

A leading and recently instituted accession to the general trade con- 
veniences of Binghamton is the enterprise of Mr. George W. Beardsley. 
This house is conveniently located and well arranged for supplying the 
trade with everything required in leather and shoe findings, and the 
stock which is large, complete and well selected, embraces cut stock, 
boot and shoe uppers, harness leather, shoe-makers' and harness 
maker's tools, etc, All goods are procured direct from manufacturers 
and first hands, and are off'ered to the trade at lowest prices. The trade 
of the house extends throughout Southern New York and Northern 
Pennsylvania and gives every promise of continued and rapid increase. 
Mr. Beardsley is an experienced man at the business, is progressive and 
enterprising, and is providing his customers with the most advanced 
facilities for procuring the best goods at lowest prices. The enterprise 
is an important one and we commend it to the trade with the assurance 
that relations with it will prove advantageous in all respects. 



142 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

FOLSOM & HUNGERFORD, 

stoves, Ranges and Furnaces, 1 25 Washington Street. 

Among the large, well-conducted and prosperous mercantile enter- 
prises of Binghamton will be found that of Messrs. Folsom & Hunger- 
ford, which was originally founded in ISS-t by F. P. Costello. the pres- 
ent firm, composed of Messrs. R. W. Folsom and A. E. Hungerford, 
having been organized in 1890. The commodious premises are com- 
prised in a store and basement, each 25x125 feet in dimensions, which 
afford ample accommodations for the display of a large and complete 
stock, which embraces the latest improved stoves, ranges and a full line 
of Carton furnaces, and tinware and kitchen furnishing goods gener- 
erally. The firm furnish estimates for furnace work, and execute all 
contracts in a first-class manner. They also do a general jobbing busi- 
ness in tin, sheet-iron and copper work, tin roofing, etc.. for which they 
are fully prepared with all necessary facilities, skilled workmen and 
materials. All goods are procured direct and are offered at bottom 
prices. The trade of the house extends throughout the neighboring 
country and is annually increasing in volume, and the business policy 
and reliability of the firm are such as to insure satisfaction to all who 
may require their services or goods. 



GOLDSTEIN BROS., 

Clothiers and Custom Tailors, 4-3 Court St., Branch Store, 2 1 5 Chenango St. 

The above named house is fully entitled to be classed among the 
most enterprising and the most reliable of the retail establishments of 
Binghamton. The business was originally instituted in 1886, upon a 
modest scale, and from its inception it grew and expanded until enlarged 
quarters were demanded, and the present handsomely appointed and 
commodious store was occupied, which has already come to be recog- 
nized as headquarters for fine tailor-made clothing in Binghamton. 
The firm carry a large stock of ready-made clothing, hats, caps, and 
gents' furni«shing goods, and they also make fine clothing to order, for 
which they display foreign and domestic suitings in large variety. Only 
such garments are handled as will withstand legitimate wear and will, 
after lengthened use. still appear as when new. In fact, the clothing 
handled by the firm is strictly tailor-made, and is really different from 
custom made in nothing except the price, which is very much less. 
From their stock a gentleman can procure garments perfect in style, 
quality of material, fit and finish, and as such they are guaranteed. 
To those who are more notional, they offer their services in their custom 
tailoring department, guaranteeing perfection and reasonable prices. 
The members of the firm, Messrs. Jacob and Samuel Goldstein, are both 
progressive business men and esteemed citizens, and the success they 
have attained is both creditable to themselves and gratifying to this 
community of which they are honorable members. 



O. B. MARSH, 

Jewelry, Watches, Diamonds, Etc., 56 Court Street. 

An important feature of the trade accommodations of Binghamton 
is the jewelry establishment of Mr. O. B. Marsh, which is representa- 
tive of the highest skill in the art, and its reputation for fair dealing 
and honorable methods stands on no lower plane than that of the first 
in the land. Mr. Marsh is probably the oldest practical jeweler and 
watchmaker in Binghamton and is one of the most skillful in the 
country. He was the first man in the Waltham Watch Company at- 
Roxbury, Mass. , and still possesses the first watch made at that factory.. 



THE CITY OF BINGHAM TON. 145: 

He carried on the jewelry business at Newark, N. J., for thirty years 
and established his enterprise in this city in 18TG. The elaborately 
ornamented and perfectly finished marble clock which attracts the 
attention of all who pass the show windows of his store was entirely 
made by him and is as perfect an example of horological skill as was 
ever produced either in this country or abroad. At the handsomely 
appointed salesrooms is shown a magnificent collection of fine watches, 
clocks, jewelry, diamonds and precious stones, silverware, etc., all of 
which are offered at reasonable prices and are warranted exactly as 
represented. A specialty is made of fine watch repairing as well as 
other services incident to the trade, and watches are adjusted to heat 
and cold and rated in position and warranted. The house enjoys a wide 
spread patronage among the most discriminating of this community. 

J. C. CORNELL & SON, 

Furnishing Funeral Directors, Office and Warerooms, 24-0 Chenango Street. 

It is only within a comparatively few^ yearsthat any apparent prog- 
ress has been made in the custom for the burial of the dead, and it is 
wholly due to the refinement of the present age that the occupation of 
the funeral director has risen from a trade to the dignity of a profession. 
In connection witli these facts special attention is directed to the prom- 
inent funeral furnishing house of Messrs. J. C. Cornell & Son. This 
firm occupy well appointed premises, comprising office, ware-rooms and 
work-shop, and here may be seen samples of the latest designs in cas- 
kets and burial cases, as well as all other necessary goods to meet with 
the requirements of all classes of patrons. The firm are prepared to take 
full charge of funerals and the burial of the dead, furnishing everything 
that may be required, casket, shroud, hearse, carriages, mourning for 
pall-bearers, etc.. and to conduct the funeral with decorum, and thus 
entirely relieve friends of any responsibility. The peculiar calling of 
the funeral director requires a sympathetic nature and a due regard and 
respect for its difficult duties. Both members of this firm, Messrs. J. C. 
and W. T. Cornell are endowed with all the traits needed in this voca- 
tion, and have ever given the greatest satisfaction to patrons. The- 
relatives of the dead can safely leave everything to their care at a time 
when of a surety, their minds could not be troubled with sad details. 



F. H. ROGERS, 

stationery, Wall Paper, Periodicals, Etc., 213 Chenango Street. 

This enterprise, which is the only one of any considerable import- 
ance of its kind on the North Side, was instituted in 1884 by W. L. 
Mudge. the present proprietor having succeeded to the business Septem- 
ber 1, 1891. The premises occupied are embraced in a commodious and 
attractively appointed corner store and contain a large and complete 
stock of fine stationery for all purposes, blank books, autograph and 
photograph albums, periodicals, newspapers, etc., as well as wall paper, 
window shades and fixtures, etc. In paper hangings the house does 
both a wholesale and retail business and the stock is particularly large 
and varied. It includes all kinds from the cheapest to the most expen- 
sive and of both foreign and American production, and the prices named 
are as low as goods of equal quality can be procured anywhere. The 
trade of the house is not confined to its immediate locality, but extends 
throughout the city and surrounding country and is annually increasing 
in volume. Mr. Rogers brings to the enterprise a complete"^ knowledge 
and experience of all its details and the well-established representation 
of the house for honorable methods will not only be maintained in the- 
future but augmented in every available manner. 



144 THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 

MATTHEW O'NEIL, 

stoves, Furnaces and Ranges, Etc., 1 S Ferry Street. 

This enterprise was instituted in 186!) and occupies commodious 
premises, consisting" of a two-story and basement building ]8x70 feet in 
dimensions, where is displayed one of the largest and most attractive 
stocks of stoves and ranges to be found in the State. Mr. O'Neil is sole 
agent in this market for Rathbone, Sard & Co.'s Acme square parlor 
stoves and ranges, which are everywhere recognized as the most beau- 
tiful and most improved stoves in the market. A general jobbing and 
repairing business is also transacted in tin. copper and sheet iron work, 
for which all necessary facilities are available. The stock also em- 
braces a general line of kitchen tinware and utensils, all of which are 
offered at lowest prices. The house offers customers the advantages of a 
large stock to select from and low prices, by reason of smaller expenses 
of selling than is possible for similar establishments located on the main 
streets, while the high-class goods are the best in the world. 



J. F. BISHOP, 

Cabinet Maker, 20 Lewis Street. 

The wood-working enterprise of Mr.* J. F. Bishop is an important 
feature of the manufacturing facilities of Binghamton, and ever since 
its inception has enjoyed a growing patronage. The plant is embraced 
in a two-story building" which is equipped with a steam engine and all 
necessary wood-working machinery, employment being furnished to a 
force of skilled workmen. The products consist of a general line of fine 
and fancy cabinet work, hard-wood mantels, store fixtures, stair-work, 
newels, balusters, railings, and all kinds of wood-turning. Mr. Bishop 
undertakes the manufacture of all kinds of hard-wood interior finishing 
and decorations for private residences and buildings from architects' 
drawings and original designs, and all work is accomplished in the most 
artistic manner. Hard-wood mantels and sideboards are specialties of 
the house, and much of the work of this character found in the houses 
of Binghamton and vicinity is the product of this establishment. Mr. 
Bishop is a thoroughly practical and experienced cabinet maker, and 
gives his close personal attention to all the details of his business in the 
interest of superior products. 



CONGDON HOUSE, 

Thomas Congdon, Prop., 80 Lewis Street. 

The Congdon House, located directly opposite the D.. L. & W. R. R. 
passenger station, offers the traveling public a pleasant and comfort- 
able sojourning place while in Binghamton. The hotel is heated 
throughout by steam and lighted with gas. and the rooms, both single 
and en suite, are handsomely furnished and appointed, far in advance 
even of many hotels of greater pretensions. The table is well supplied 
with both substantials and delicacies and the attention and service are 
first-class. In all its apartments the most thorough cleanliness per- 
vades, and guests are given the same attention that may be looked for 
in any well regulated hotel, while the homelike character of the house 
is a grateful change from that of larger hostelries. The location of the 
house, contiguous to both railway stations, makes it a convenient one 
to travelers, who will receive such treatment here as will insure many 
returns. The rates are but $1.50 per day and special rates are made for 
large parties, according to location of rooms, and for weekly guests. 
The hotel is well patronized by travelers and tourists and has always 
■enjoyed a high reputation for the accommodation of the public. 



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145 



A. WINKLER, 

Pattern and Model Maker and Dealer in Engines, Boilers and Machinery, 

1 96 State Street. 

This city is fortunate in the posses- 
sion of such an enterprise as that of 
Mr. A. Winkler, a gentleman of long 
and valuable experience, who removed 
here from Catskill, N. Y.. in 1888 and 
has since established a large demand 
for his services among local and near- 
by manufacturers, besides whom he 
numbers among his customers manu- 
facturers all over the United States. 
He is prepared with all facilities to exe- 
cute all work in his line not only 
promptly but with that intelligent ap- 
preciation of design that is only found 
in an expert. As a maker of patterns 
for all kinds of brass and iron castings, 
as well as designing and drafting com- 
plicated machinery in sections or other- 
wise, he has acquired a most enviable 
reputation. Original designing of ma- 
chinery is his specialty and any work 
of difficult construction is specially solicited. The carding and fitting 
of patterns for malleable iron and brass castings is also accomplished 
with great nicety. Special attention is also given to making models 
and drawings for experimental machinery and for the Patent Office. 
In connection with the above he deals in engines, boilers, shafting, 
hangers, pulleys and machinery, both new and second-hand, and the 
trade can frequently find second-hand machinery here at a great saving 
in price that will fully answer their requirements. 




DELMONICO CAFE, 

J. K. Marsh, Proprietor, Strong Block. 

One of th'e finest public buildings in the '' Parlor City" is the Strong 
block, a substantial brick structure recently erected and containing all 
modern improvements. In this beautiful building is found a fitting 
home for Mr. J. K. Marsh's splendid restaurant, which is without excep- 
tion the finest restaurant in Southern New York, and is in all respects 
equal to many of the noted ones in the metropolis. It has been appro- 
priately named Binghamtoti's Delmonico Cafe. The cafe occupies one- 
half of the front of the building on the ground floor. It is handsomely 
fitted up and appointed in hard-wood fixtures, the walls being relieved 
with mirrors and rich portieres divide the general dining-room from the 
ice cream parlor. The table furnishings are of the most elegant chir- 
acter, handsome china and glassware, silverware and napery of Damask 
linen. The cuisine is excellent and the service first-class in every re- 
spect, while the bill-of fare includes every delicacy of the season and 
the market. Regular meals at stated hours are served to patrons, and 
orders a la carte are served at all hours day and night at reasonable 
prices. A specialty is made of ice cream with choice natural fruit 
flavors and of after-theatre suppers. No wines or liquors are served. 
Mr. Marsh also conducts another restaurant at 47 Court street which is 
also open at all hours day and night. He is an experienced caterer and 
an esteemed host. 



146 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



JAMES O'NEIL, 

Manufacturer of Light Carriages and Wagons, 255, 257 and 259 Water St. 

This enterprise was founded in 1877, and the present commodious 
plant was erected in 1880. It is a two-story brick buikling GOxlOO feet 

in dimensions, which is fully equipped 
with all modern conveniences for rapid 
and perfect production, and employ- 
ment is given to a force of skilled work- 
men, all of whose operations are con- 
ducted under the close personal super- 
vision of the proprietor. The products- 
of the factory consist of but one quality 
of work, and that is the very best. 
Light carriages for business or pleas- 
ure are made in all the leading and 
fashionable styles, and also light and 
heavy business wagons of all kinds. 
While most of the vehicles are made to order, a considerable stock is 
also carried from which selections may be made. In addition to the 
manufacture of vehicles. Mr. O'Neil devotes particular attention to re- 
pairing of all kinds. The trade of the house extends throughout the' 
city and vicinity, and many of the carriages and wagons in use in 
Binghamton are the products of this enterprising house. 




GLEAZEN & KINGMAN, 

Fine Boots, Shoes and Rubbers, 2 1 Court Street. 

This house is a representative of the better class of retail establish- 
ments in this city, and while it caters to the masses, the goods handled 
are of a far superior character to those frequently offered as bargains 
but which are more often bad bargains in the end. It was instituted in 
the spring of 1887 and at once took a leading position in the trade. 
The store is centrally located and attractively appointed and contains a 
large and well selected stock of the very best goods in the market. 
While the goods are superior, the prices are governed by a commend- 
able spirit of moderation and are quite as low as those of any competi- 
tor. The stock embraces boots, shoes and rubbers for men, women and 
children, in great variety of style and shape and in all sizes and widths, 
which have been chosen with experienced judgment and great care as 
to quality. The firm guarantee the quality of every pair of shoes they 
sell. The members of the firm, Messrs. W. H. Gleazen and Jefferson 
Kingman, are both progressive merchants and enterprising in all that 
relates to their business. Their establishment is a striking exponent of 
the attractive retail trade conveniences of this thriving city and is the 
parlor shoe store of the Parlor City. 



PARLOR CITY BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY, 

G. G. Kaeppel, Prop., 22 Court Street. 

The Parlor City Bakery and Confectionery, of which Mr. G. G, 
Kaeppel is the founder and proprietor, has long been recognized as a 
leading representative of the trade accommodations of the city. It was 
founded in I8S0, and has since built up a large and growing trade, both 
at wholesale and retail, which extends throughout the city and sur- 
rounding towns. The premises occupied are commodious and well 
adapted to the business and are embraced in two floors, each 23x70 feet 
in dimensions, besides which two storage rooms are occupied elsewhere. 
The equipment of the plant embraces all the latest improved appliances; 



THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 147 

known to the trade, operated by an eight-horse power steam engine, and 
employment is furnished to ten assistants, three wagons also being 
utilised for delivering the products to the trade and consumers. All 
kinds of bakery products are manufactured and with chemical uniform- 
it3\ Only the best materials are used and the result is a high quality 
of product that is fully appreciated by the trade. Specialties are made 
of hne cakes, fancy wedding cakes and handsomely decorated cakes for 
entertainments, in which branch of the business this house has no suc- 
cessful competitor in the city. A full line of fine confectionery is also 
handled and the display of fine goods in this line, made in handsomely 
appointed salesrooms, is a most attractive one. Mr. Ka^ppel is a native 
of Germany and is an expert and practical baker, and gives his per- 
sonal attention to all details of the business in the interest of excellence 
of product. He is an esteemed citizen and progressive merchant and 
his success is as well merited as it is prominent. 



CRANE & PARKER, 

Dealer in Stoves and Ranges, 12 and 14- Court Street. 

This leading and representative house was founded in 1881, the 
present firm, composed of Messrs. W. H. Crane and T. H. Parker, hav- 
ing been organized in 1886. The firm's salesrooms are embraced in a 
double store 35x60 feet in dimensions, where the stock shown is the 
most complete and comprehensive in all departments that can be found 
in this section. The line of stoves, ranges and furnaces comprises those 
whose superior heating and cooking qualities are familiar to every 
housekeeper, and includes the Sterling stoves and ranges made by the 
Sill Stove Co. of Rochester, N. Y. The firm also make a specialty of the 
wrought steel ranges for hotels, restaurants and private families, made 
by Sherman S. Jewett & Co., of Buffalo, N. Y., which are beyond 
question the acme of perfection in cooking apparatus. In the manufac- 
ture of tin, sheet iron and copper work, as well as general jobbing, the 
house occupies an unquestioned position at the head of the trade. The 
business of the house is active in this city and throughout the country 
and is constantly increasing under the stimulating effects of enterpris- 
ing, reliable and progressive management. 



R. REUBEN, 

Merchant Tailor, 233 Chenango St. 

A recent accession to the trade accommodations of that section of 
the city known as the North side is the merchant tailoring establish- 
ment of Mr. R. Reuben, which was instituted so late as October, 1891. 
This date, however, by no means represents the experience of the pro- 
prietor in the business, since he is an expert and practical cutter and 
custom tailor, and formerly conducted a similar enterprise at Elmira, 
N. Y. He occupies commodious and well arranged salesrooms, where 
he displays a carefully selected stock of fine imported and domestic 
woolens, suitin=rs and cloths suitable for the production of fine garments 
for a discriminating and first-class trade. Notwithstanding the high 
quality of all garments produced the prices have been regulated by a 
commendable spirit of moderation and fair dealing, and are but little 
greater than is demanded for ready-made clothing while the garments are 
far superior. Mr. Reuben also carries in stock a variety of ready-made 
clothing- of his own manufacture which is made up in exactly the same 
elegan t manner as his custom made garments. Gents' furnishings goods 
are also carried in stock and a specialty is made in the manufacture of 
uniforms for all uses. 



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LYMAN CLOCK, SON & CO., 

Manufacturers of Tobacco and Cigars, 1 8 and 1 9 WcJ! Street. 




The tobacco and cigar manufactory of Messrs. Lyman Clock, Son 
& Co. was founded in 1868. The premises occupied for the business are 
comprised in a handsome new four-story brick building 44x1:^5 feet in 
dimensions which was erected in 1889 and is an architectural ornament 
to that part of the city in which it is located, not being dwarfed even 
by the Government building, which it adjoins. It is by far the best 
lighted and .best fitted-up factory building in the city and was erec^ted 
according to the experienced ideas and under the personal supervision 
of the head of the firm. The mechanical equipment embraces the latest 
improved tobacco cutting and cigar making machinery known to the 
trade, which is operated by a 50-horse power steam Engine and employ- 
ment is furnished to one hundred skilled workmen. The products em- 
brace a full line of fine cut smoking and chewing tobacco, which is 
attractively put up and is in wide demand by the trade and consumers 
throughout Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania, the chief 
brands of '" Purity "' and "Legal Tender'' being especially popular and 
in demand by all dealers in this section. In cigars the firm manufac- 
ture a large number of grades which are sold to the jobbing trade only 
and are shipped to the Western States chiefly, as far as the Pacific 
slope. The members of the firm are Messrs. Lyman Clock, who has 
been connected with the business since its inception, and his son, "VV. 
A. Clock. 



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HOTCHKIN'S REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE, 

163 Washington Street. 

With the bright out- 
look that Binghamton 
enjoys for the future, in- 
vestments in city prop- 
erty at the present time 
cannot but prove a most 
valuable medium for in- 
vestors. Prominently 
engaged in providing 
favorable opportunities 
for persons in all walks 
of life, to acquire real 
estate upon the most 
favorable terms, is Mr. 
W. S. Hotchkin. who has 
particularly desirable 
plots of land and improv- 
ed properties in all parts 
of the city, which he 
offers to investors at 
prices which are sure to 
give a wide margin of 
profit within a very short 
time. During the past 
five years over 600 vacant 
lots have been sold 
through this agency, be- 
sides several hundred 
thousand dollars worth 
of improved city prop- 
erty. Mr. Hotchkin 
makes a specialty of out- 
side property, selling and 
exchanging, a n d h i s 
mammoth list which he 
sends free contains over 
700 exchanges besides 
hundreds of city houses, 
vacant lots, farms, mills, 
hotels, stores, stocks of 
goods, village property, 
etc. for sale. He adver- 
tises largely and probably 
negotiates the sale and 
exchange of more outside 
property than any other 
agency in the State of 
New York. He also rents 
and tcikes charge of the 
property of non-residents, places loans, negotiates mortgages and serves 
patrons and investors in every available manner. He is well and 
widely known in connection with real estate matters and is a man in 
whom the utmost confidence may be reposed. He will be pleased to 
give callers full particulars with regard to Binghamton and outside real 
estate and all representations will be found based upon fair and honor- 
able dealing. 




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STEPHENS & MILLER, 



Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Stationery, Paper, Etc., 85 and 87 State St. 




GEORGE A. KENT'S BLOCK. 



This house was founded in 1881 though Mr. Stephens the head of 
the firm lias been actively engaged in business in Binghamton since 
1862. The tirm deals in paper of every description including wrapping, 
writing, building, printing and wall papers, and also stationery and 
blank books, paper bags, twines, stationers' supplies, pens, inks, fancy 
articles and an infinite variety of goods much too numerous to particu- 
larize. They are the only firm in the city handling the same variety of 
goods and are the only jobbing paper warehouse here. They are by far 
the largest dealers in wall papers in the Southern tier and their stock in 
this line both for the wholesale and retail trade is complete in variety 
and high character. The premises occupied by the firm are embraced 
in a large double store 40x100 feet in dimensions, having three floors, 
which give them every facility to advantageously display their goods 
and to carry a very large stock. The trade of the house extends through- 
out Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania chiefiy. in which 
territory they are represented by traveling salesmen. A special feature 
of the business is the manufacture to order of blank books for banks, 
insurance and railroad companies and manufacturing corporations and 
firms. The members of the firm are Messrs. F. H. Stephens and Walter 
E,. Miller. Mr. Stephens was at one time Mayor of Bingliamton, and 
both gentlemen are closely identified with the commercial ; dvancement 
of the city. 



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OTTO A. MALLES, 

House, Sign and Fresco Painter and Dealers in Paints, Oils, Class, Etc., 

89 State Street. 

The paint, oil and glass store of Mr. Otto A. Malles. though founded 
so recently as November 1, 1890. has, by reason of its enterprising and 
progressive management, ah-eady placed itself in a leading position in 
the trade in this city and is enjoying a large and annually increasing trade . 
A commodious store and basement 22x80 feet in dimensions is occupied, 
which is filled with a large and complete stock of paints, oils, glass, var- 
nishes, brushes and painters' supplies generally, as well as artists' mater- 
ials. A full line of ready mixed paints is carried in all the leading and fash- 
ionable tints and colors, and the whole is offered to the trade and con- 
sumers at lowest possible prices. Mr. Malles also undertakes contracts 
for all kinds of house, sign and fresco painting which is executed in 
the highest style of the art. Employment is furnished to from fifteen 
to twenty skilled workmen and the facilities for the fulfillment of all 
orders with promptness are unexcelled. The work of this character in 
many of the newly erected buildings in Binghamton and vicinity has 
Ibeen performed by this house and with invariable satisfaction to all 
patrons. Mr. Malles is an enterprising merchant and a pushing busi- 
ness man, and his enterprise is a prominent feature of the trade facili- 
ties of the Parlor City. 



ALONZO ROBERSON, 

Manufacturer of Sash, Doors and Blinds, Main Office, 313 Chenango Street, 

Works, West End. 




The extensive wood-working enterprise of Mr. Alonzo Roberson is 
the largest and most important establishment of its kind in the state, 
and one of the oldest industrial enterprises of Binghamton. It was 
founded in 1848 by Newman Marsh, the present proprietor having been 
at the head of its affairs since 1856, and in the management of the 
present extensive business, he has for the last few years been ably as- 
sisted by his son, Mr. Alonzo Roberson, Jr. The newly erected plant at 
the West End, which has been recently completed and occupied, covers 
ten and one-half acres and adjoins both the Erie and D., L. & W. rail- 
roads, affording with the network of side-tracks which gridiron the 
premises, the most perfect receiving and shipping facilities, which place 



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the concern far in advance of any other house in this vicinity and on a. 
par with the most extensive concerns of the kind in the country. The 
estabHshment in operation presents an interesting spectacle and is a 
perfect bee-hive of mechanical industry, employment being given to- 
one hundred and fifty workmen. The products are shipped to all parts 
of the Eastern. Middle and Southern states, and are also exported 
through New York shipping houses to many foreign countries. They 
embrace sash, doors, blinds, builders' woodwork aud planing mill lum- 
ber, hardwood doors, mantels and other hardwood finish for buildings, 
both for the trade in regular sizes, as well as special goods from archi- 
tects' drawings, and many of the finest modern commercial and office 
buildings, hotels and apartment houses in the great cities of the East 
have been supplied with doors, sash, blinds and other interior wood- 
work by this house. The facilities of the house for production are un- 
surpassed in the state. The lumber is received direct from the original 
sources of supply and an enormous stock is constantly kept on hand 
maturing, as well as to supply the trade in this vicinity, the stock car- 
ried being by far the largest of any concern in Binghamton. Aside 
from manufacturing for the wholesale trade, a large business is done in 
planing, re-sawing and general wood-working for builders and others 
in this city, and although the manufacturing operations have all been 
removed to the new plant, the old lumber yards on Chenango street are 
still maintained for the accommodation of the public. 




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Binghamton has long enjoyed a high reputation as a source of sup- 
ply for the best qualities of working men's clothing, and it is but just tO' 
state that this high reputation has been largely due to the efforts and 
enterprise of Mr. Reed B. Freeman, President and Manager of the Bing- 
hamton Overall Co. Mr. Freeman was the founder of the Freeman 
Overall Co. of this city, about ten years ago, and until recently one of 
its managers. On September ], 1891, he organized the Binghamton 
Overall Co. , and he is also interested in the proprietorship of tlie Free- 
man Manufacturing Co., of Scranton, Pa., which company is engaged 
in the production of a similar class of goods. The Binghamton Overall 
Co.'s plant occupies a considerable part of the five-story "Republican" 
building, with offices and cutting rooms on the first floor and manufac- 
turing department on the upper floors. The company is in the posses- 
sion of every modern facility for the production of superior goods, 
sewing machines being operated by steam power, and employment is 



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furnished to a large number of skilled operatives. The products embrace 
the celebrated Freeman pant overalls and sack coats, also lumbermen's 
and hunters' flannel-lined duck coats, which have long enjoyed being 
the best goods of the kind in the market and are so recognized by the 
trade. In addition to the above they manufacture a large line of panta- 
loons, made from kerseys, jeans, cottons, worsteds, etc. The goods are 
all distinguished for the quality of the material, careful workmanship, 
high wearing properties and general excellence. At the same time the 
price is as low as goods of similar quality can be produced anywhere. 
This, indeed, may be said to be the corner-stone upon which the business 
has been founded, viz: the production of a line of goods which are at 
the same time both cheap and serviceable. The trade of the house is 
"well spread over the Middle and Western States as far west as the 
Mississippi, and having been instituted under the most favorable aus- 
pices, gives every promise of long continued success and prosperity. 
Mr. Freeman is closely allied to the progress of Binghamton and is highly 
esteemed both by the trade and this community. 



THE WILKINSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 

Manufacturers of Children's Express Wagons and Sleighs, Dining Chairs, Etc.,. 

Foot Sanford Street. 

This house, orig- 
inally founded in I860' 
by Winton & Doo- 
little, passed through 
several changes of 
proprietorship ; the 
immediate predeces- 
sor of the present in- 
corporated company 
was the Winton Man- 
ufacturing Company, 
The Wilkinson Man- 
ufacturing Company 
having succeeded in 
April, 1890. The plant 
covers several city 
lots and embraces a 
series of buildings, 
fully equipped with wood-working machinery, operated by water power 
with a 75-horse power auxiliary steam engine. Large yards are also' 
utilized for storing lumber. The company employs about 125 skilled 
workmen and others, and the products embrace childrens' express 
wagons and sleighs of many designs, styles and sizes. The last year 
the company have also added to the above named specialties, the pro- 
duction of dining chairs, folding tables and other articles of furniture 
and their success in this department has been quite equal to the other. 
The trade of the house extends throughout the United States generally 
and their goods are also exported abroad. The officers of the company 
are Messrs. W. H. Wilkinson, prest., Charles Davis, vice-prest., W. H. 
Eastwood, sec'y, and C. E. Edgerton. treas. Mr. Wilkinson is also the 
senior member of the firm of Wilkinson, Son & Co., tanners, and Mr. 
Eastwood is of the firm of Wilkinson & Eastwood, chair manufacturers. 
The enterprise is one of the most prominent features of Binghamton's 
industrial activity and its success is creditable alike to the city and to. 
its management. 




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ALEX. E. ANDREWS, 

Real Estate and Insurance, 56 Court St. 

Among the leading representatives of the real estate and insurance 
business of Binghamton is the agency of Mr. Alex. E. Andrews, who 
has been a prominent member of the fraternity for about twenty years, 
during which time he has developed great success in conducting a large 
business in both departments of real estate and insurance. He repre- 
sents a first-class line of fire insurance companies, and the well known 
Tellable Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Springfield, 
whose liberal and honorable business methods for over forty years have 
'won the public confidence and are guarantees of its future stability. In 
real estate matters Mr. Andrews transacts a general agency business, 
buying, selling, and exchanging real property of all kinds. He has a 
large number of valuable and desirable central and suburban properties 
•for sale, among which is the valuable Moeller estate of ninety acres 
within the city limits, and the certain advance of prices in the early 
spring will insure investors a handsome profit if bought at the present 
"time, while to those who desire permanent investment of capital or are 
looking for home sites, the opportunities now offered were never excelled 
in the history of this cit}^ Mr, Andrews also has the Lombard Invest- 
ment Co.'s guaranteed mortgages and debenture bonds for sale, which 
will be found a safe and desirable form of investment for those of small 
uDr large means. Mr. Andrews is a higlily respected citizen of Bingham- 
ton ; he was twice elected as the representative of Broome county in the 
State Assembly, in 1878 and 1880, and he is closely identified with the 
progress and development of this city. 



CASPER & CRITTENDEN, 

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Crockery, Glassware, Etc. 
209 Chenango and 24- Eldredge Street. 




The extensive wholesale and retail establishment of Messrs. Casper 
•& Crittenden has long been a leader in its line of trade in the Southern 



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Tier. The house was founded in 1883 by Casper & Honan. who were 
succeeded in 1887 by Casiier & Wood, and they in turn by the present 
firm in 1890. The members of the firm are Messrs. B. Casper and H. A. 
Crittenden, the former having been at the head of its affairs from the 
inception of the business. The premises occupied for the business are 
commodious and well arranged for the display of a large and varied 
stock, and no house in the State outside of the great metropolitan cen- 
ters is better prepared to meet the wants of the general trade than this 
one. The stock carried embraces a large and well selected line of 
crockery, glassware, tinware, lamps, kerosene goods, china, bric-a- 
brac, fancy goods, porcelain, etc.. much of which is imported direct, 
and when of domestic production is procured from the fact(n'ies in large 
lots. The variety of goods is large and the prices will be found as low 
as may be obtained in New York or elsewhere. The trade of the house 
extends throughout Southern New York and Pennsylvania, and travel- 
ing salesmen visit dealers within the territory at frequent intervals, 
thus affording them the best advantages to promptly and expeditiously 
sort up their stocks and have their orders filled with greater dispatch 
than would be possible from more distant sources of supply. The en- 
terprise is a prominent feature of the retail and jobbing trade of 
Binghamton. 

J. W. BROWN, 

Laundry and Custom Shirts, 2 15 Washington Street. 

The Binghamton Steam Laundry 
and the Otseningo Shirt Factory, of 
which Mr. J.W. Brown is the founder 
and proprietor, together form the 
chief enterprise of the kind in Bing- 
hamton. It is also one of old estab- 
lishment, the laundry department 
having been instituted about twenty 
years ago, and the shirt factory was 
added in 1874. The premises occu- 
pied are comprised in the first floor 
and basement of the handsome four- 
story brick building, which was 
erected in 1888 by Mr. Brown. The 
equipment embraces all that has been 
found useful in modern laundry ma- 
chinery and is operated by a 25-horse 
power engine, employment being 
given to at out twenty operatives. 
From the inception of the business, 
the aim of the management has been 
to do thororoughly first-class work 
only, and every operation and detail 
of the business is carefully supervised 
by the proprietor in person. The result 
has been the establishment of a trade Avhich is annually increasing and 
which includes all the discriminating members of this community. 
Branca agencies have been established in the surrounding towns and 
cities, and also in this city, and wagons also call for and deliver work to 
all parts of the city. Fine shirts are made to measure, which are per- 
fect in fit and finish, and this department is well patronized by those 
who are fasfcidiou? in their wearing apparel. Mr. Brown is an enter- 
prising anrl prorres^ve man and has succeeded in building up a notable 
success in his chosen vocation. 




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L. L. & V. B. CANOLL, 

stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Etc., lOl Court Street. 

This enterprise, which is one of the leading- houses of its kind in 
Binghamton. was originally founded twenty-one years ago. by W. P. 
Canoll, and it has long been recognized as a prominent representative 
of the trade accommodations of the city. The premises occupied are 
commodious, centrally located and well adapted to the business, and 
ample accommodations are at hand for carrying a large and complete 
stock of stoves, ranges, heaters, house furnishing goods, tinware, etc. 
Altogether the stock is of an essentially superior character, is well selected 
with experienced judgment and covers a wide variety. The stoves and 
ranges are the best and latest improved appliances of the kind on the 
market and embody all the really desirable features that have been in- 
troduced together with peculiar excellencies exclusively their own, and 
they are confidently recommended to the public as economical of fuel, 
easy of management, and of high class efficiency. In house furnishing^ 
goods including the multitude of useful articles for lightening the labor 
of the house-wife, this house is headquarters, and a specialty is made of 
fancy moulds for culinary purposes, which cannot be obtained in so 
great a variety elsewhere in Binghamton, and no house in the city car- 
ries so many repairs for all kinds of stoves, ranges and furnaces, those 
not in stock being promptly procured. The established reputation of 
the house for reliability and liberal and fair dealing methods has re- 
sulted in an annually increasing trade and fully entitles it to the success 
it enjoys. 

WILLIAMS & ROSEN KRANS, 

Pharmacists, Chemists and Perfumers, 23 Court St. 




The elegant and tastefully appointed pharmacy of Messrs. Williams 
& Rosenkrans is one of the most attractively furnished establishments 
of the kind in the state, and is fully entitled to be recorded as a work of 
art. It was originally founded in J 874 by James E. Brown, the present 



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firm having been organized April 1, 1891. at which date the present 
newly fitted up place of business was first opened to the public. The 
firm carry in stock a full and complete line of drugs, medicines, phar- 
maceutical preparations, physicians" supplies and proprietary medi- 
cines, as well as toilet requisites, fancy goods, druggists" sundries and 
perfumery. They make a chief specialty in compounding physicians' 
prescriptions and family recipes, with due regard to the responsibilities 
of the department. The pharmacy enjoys the patronage and esteem of 
a wide circle of customers, which is gradually extending as its reputa- 
tion for reliability becomes more widely known. In the purchase of no 
other class of goods should greater discrimination be used than in pro- 
curing medicines, and bearing this fact in mind we take pleasure in 
commending the pharmacy of Messrs. Williams & Rosenkrans to the 
public as thoroughly reliable in all respects. 



EZRA L. OSTROM, 

Druggist, 24-6 Chenango Street. 

The pharmacy of which Mr. 
Ezra L. Ostrom is the enterpris- 
ing proprietor, was founded by 
him about fifteen years ago, and 
is recognized as being a most 
popular adjunct to the trade fa- 
cilities of the North side. The 
store is handsomely appointed, 
and the stock is large and com- 
plete, embracing a full line of 
drugs and medicines of every 
description, together with a com- 
plete assorment of all standard 
proprietary medicines, toilet ar- 
ticles and requisites, perfumes, 
fancy goods, druggists' sundries, 
etc. Special attention is paid to 
the accurate compounding of 
physicians' prescriptions and 
this department is a distinguish- 
ing feature of the business. The 
store presents that attractive ap- 
pearance always associated with 
a thoroughly equipped establish- 
ment of this character and is 
also headquarters for the 
medical profession in the local- 
ity in which it is situated. Mr. 
Ostrom is practically conversant 
and skilled in all relating to his 
profession and enjoys the esteem 
and consideration of a large 
circle of patrons. He is courteous and liberal in all transactions with 
patrons and we are safe in predicting for him a continued expansion of 
operations in the future. 



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THE BINGHAIVITON TRUST COMPANY, 

Corner State and Henry Streets. 




The latest accession to the financial and fiduciary institutions of 
Binghamton and one that occupies an important field is The Bingham- 
ton Trust Company, which was incorporated September 8, 1890, with a 
capital stock of $400,000, the stockholders al-o being personally liable 
for $400,000. Thus $800,000 stand between a depositor in this company 
and any possible loss. This company is the only one of the kind in the 
southern section of the State between New York and Buffalo and a large 
portion of Pennsylvania contiguous to Binghamton is unsupplied with 
a similar institution. Its field of operations is therefore wide-spread 
and it has already attracted a large and growing business. The capital 
of the company is required by law to be invested in securities of un- 
doubted safety, of fixed value and of a kind unaffected by stock manip- 
ulations. By its charter the company has authority and is prepared 
to loan money on real or personal security; to act as fiscal or transfer 
agent, as trustee, guardian or receiver, as executor or administrator, as- 
committee of the estate of persons of unsound mind; to act as agent in 
the collection of income or rents; to accept and execute trusts of mar- 
ried women in respect to their separate property; to take, accept and 
execute any and all trusts that may be committed to it; to receive 
deposits in trust; to receive deposits of money, in active account, subject 
to check at sight without notice; to receive deposits, and issue therefor 
certificates transferable and payable on demand, with interest at the 
rate of four, per cent, per annum, if left three months, and special rates 
for other definite periods. Interest is paid at the rate of four per cent, 
on all deposits left three months, and compounded semi-annually and 
entered on the book of the depositor when presented. Interest is paid 
at a fixed rate and is not dependent upon earnings. There being no 
stated dividend period, deposits can be withdrawn at any time after 
three months and full interest will be paid to date of withdrawal. The 
company differs from a Savings Bank in that it has a large capital^ 



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safely invested, that is plecTged as security to its depositors. It differs, 
from a National Bank in that it can loan money on real estate security 
as well as personal, and is not restricted in the amount of its loans.. 
The trustees are well-known business men. Successful in their personal 
affairs, they bring to the management of the Trust company experir- 
ence and sound judgment, that are sufficient guarantees that any trust 
committed to the company will be faithfully and honestly executed. 
The Trust Company is free from the contingency of death, which is sO' 
often a disastrous feature in the selection and appointment of an indi- 
vidual as trustee. When a person selects it to act as his trustee, he has- 
the assurance that it will be in continuance as long as the trust lasts. 
The officers of the company are C. J. Knapp, prest... H. H. Crary, vice- 
prest., J. B. Landfield. treas. , Stoddard Hammond. Jr., secretary, Jacob- 
Wiser, cashier, and W. J. Welsh, attorney, and the trustees are C. J. 
Knapp, J. S. Wells, S. Hammond, Jr., W. J. Welsh, M. Birdsall, H. S. 
Jarvis. J. B. Landfield, G. T. Rogers, J. B. Bowen, J. B. Simpson, A. 
J. Schlager,W. E. Taylor, Cyrus Strong, H. H. Crary and Frank Gould,, 
and the list of stockholders is a directory of the wealth of Binghamton.. 
The offices of the company are in the new Strong block and are attrac- 
tively and handsomely fitted up and appointed and form a fitting home 
for so substantial and solid an institution. 



INDEX. 



Abell, E. A., Pie Pi-eparations Page 106 

Ackley. G. S. & Co., Real' Estate 96 

AcmeOilCo., 123 

Adam«, E. & Sons. Brass and Iron Works 79 

Alden, H. T., Cigar M'f 'r 47 

Andrews, Alex. E., Real Estate 154. 

Arlington, The 90 

Babcock & Stowell, Hardware 107 

Barlow, Rogers & Simpson, Cigar M'f rs 114 

Barnes & Congdon. Marble Works 88 

Barrett Bros., Pianos and Organs 107 

Baitlett & Co., Planing Jlill 74 

Bates Steam Laundry Opposite title page 

Bayless Paper Co., 71 

Beach Electrical Supply, The Clarence E 41 

Bean & Co., Wholesale Grocers 77 

Beardsley, Geo. W., Leather and Findings 141 

Beman & Bavless, M'f rs Barrel Heads 49 

Bennett. Abel & Co., Clothiers, 89 

Bennett Bros., Cigar Box M'f "rs 70 

Bennett M'f'g Co.. M"fr"s of Overalls 134 

Berwind- White Coal Mining Co 113 

Binghamton Hlaikboard Co 71 

Binghamton Butter Package Co., The 94 

Binghamton Chair Co., L'd 108 

Binghamton Cigar Co 116 

Binghamton Cutlery Co 134 

Binghamton Dairy Association 135 

Binghamton Glass Works .38 

Binghamton Glove and Mitten M'f'g Co 46 

Binghamton M'f'g Co., Outing Garments 84 

Binghamton Oil Refining Co., 125 

Binghamton Overall Co 1.52 

Binghamton Produce Co 59 

Binghamton Safe Deposit Co 110 

Binghamton Trust Co 1.58 

Binghamton Veneer Co 127 

Binghamton Wire Goods Co., The .54 

Binghamton Wire Works 74 

Binghamton Woolen Co 57 

Bishop, J. F., Cabinet Maker 144 

Bolles Hoe and Tool Co., The L., Hoe M'frs 69 

Boss, Stojiparcl & Hecox. Insurance 93 

Bradstreet Com])any. The, Mercantile Agency.. . 1:^6 

Bronsou. W. C. & Co. Cigar Mfrs 78 

Brown, Dexter D., Furniture 86 

Brown, J. W.. Laundry 155 



Brown & Co., Wholesale Fruits ]oa 

Buchanan Geo., Wines and Liquors 102 

Bundy M'f'g Co., Time Recorders 131 

Burhans & Barnes, Insurance Agents 50i 

Bush, H. L. & Co., e igar M'fr's 6.* 

Callahan & Douglas, Hardware 133 

CanoU,. L. L. & V^. B., Stoves 156. 

Carver, W. J., Dairy Products 140 

Casper & Crittenden, China and Crockery, etc 154 

Chubbuck, H. W. & Co., Spice Mills 80 

Clapp, C. M.. Boots and Shoes 136, 

Clarke Co., John Ray, Wholesale Hatters 68 

Clock, L., Son & Co., Cigar M'fr's 148 

Congdon House 144 

ConkUn & Mersereau, Grass Seeds 83 

Corbin A., Son & Co., Wholesale Drugs 36- 

Corbin, C. A., Egg Sliipper 64 

Cornell,. Davis & thear. Grocers 133. 

Cornell, J. C. & Son, P'uneral Directors 143 

Cornwall, Reed & Lane, Brokers 127 

Crandall. Stone & Co,, Carriage Trimmings 72 

Crane & Parker, Stoves 147 

Darling, C. S.. Chicago Beef 47 

Darrow Hay Co 88 

Delmonico Cafe 14.5 

Doolittle, L.. Custom Miller 56 

Dun. R. G. & Co., The Mercantile Agency 112 

Ehhlie & Rider, 5 and 10 cent Goods 136. 

Ely, S. Mills & Co . Wholesale Grocers 40' 

Empire (^rain & Elevator Co 60-6t 

Eureka Advertising Agency eO" 

Field, P. E., Grocer... 117 

Folmsbee & Ives, Cigar M'fr's 54 

Folsom & Hungerford, Stoves 142: 

Ford, G. H..& E. A., Coal Dealers 49" 

Fowler, W. C. & Co.. M'fr's Confectionery 98 

Freeman, Reed B., Overall M'fr 1.52: 

Gaylord, H. J.. Real Estate 70' 

Gaylord's Storage Warehouse 6,5i 

Gaylord & Eitapenc. Steam Heating 95- 

Gleazen & Kingman, Boots and Shoes 146 

Gilbert, F. N., 130- 

Goldstem Bros., Clothiers 142: 

Green, Geo. E., Coal Wholesale li;i 

Gumberg, .John & Co.. Cigar M'fr's 101 

Hanrahan Bros., Wholesale Liquors ISO" 

Harding, Lowell & Son, Hides and Furs 13& 



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INDEX. 



Hathaway & Berry, Flour and Gram 93 

Heath & Harris, Machinists 66 

Hemingway, W. W.. Stoves, etc 56 

Hennessey "Bros., Cigar iM'fr's 117 

Hills, McLean & Williams, Dry Goods 134 

Hirschmaun Bros.. Dry Goods 132 

Hoffmann Lubricating Oil Co 110 

Holbert, W. P., Lumber, etc 89 

Hotchkin, W. S.. Real Estate 149 

Hull, Grummond & Co., Cigar M'fr's 66 

Humes & Smith, Grocers 140 

Johnson & Lamb, Shoe M"f r"s 106 

Jones of Binghamton, Scales 44 

Kaeppel. G. G.. Bakery 146 

Kent, Geo. A. & Co., Cigar M'f r^s 100 

Kilmer, Dr. & Co., Propr.etary Medicines 33-34 

Kilmer, Willis Sharpe, Advertising Agency 9S 

Knapp & Son, Machinists 67 

Lacey, J. W^. Cigar Box M'fr 80 

Lauder, I. & Son, Marble Works 41 

Lee, Charles E., Lumber, Lime, etc 57 

Lewis House 1^1 

Lloyd & Gardiner, Wholesale Confectioners 62 

Lowell Business College 121 

Lynch & Christie, Grates and Mantels 46 

Lyon, Addison J., Lumber 126 

Malane. D. J.. Plumber 77 

Malles, Otto A.. Paints and Oils 151 

Marsh, J. K., Cafe 145 

Marsh, O. B.. Jeweler 142 

Mason, Edward R.. Optician 87 

Mason, O. R., Agt.. Plumber 51 

Matthews. G. A., Real Estate ... 102 

McKinney, Evei-ts & Co., Spice Mills 52 

McMahon, M., Carriage M'fr 76 

Meagley & Blanchard Coal 109 

Middlebrook, C. D. & Co., Lumber 73 

M. L S. T J» 

Mitchell, S. N., Insurance 103 

Moon, Geo. Q. & Co., Flour Mills 40 

Morgan, Ainsworth & Carroll, Insurance 137 

Morgan, Julius P.. Cigar M'fr 68 

Moses, John J., "V\Tiolesale Liquors 120 

Mosher, Wm. H., Grocer 139 

Mount Prospect Medical Institute Ill 

Nelson, B. H. & Son, Bankers 129 

Kelson & Legge. Wholesale Fruits 91 

Ne wing, Judson S , Jewelry M'fr 138 

North & Shaw, Wholesale Provisions 94 

Nowlan, John. Boiler Works. 79 

Noyes, Jos. P. & Co.. M'fr's Combs and Buttons 42 

Oflfenheiser, S. E., Wholesale Fruits 72 

Ogden, Wm. H. & Co., Cigar M'fr's .... 55 

O'Neil, James, Carriage M'fr 146 

O'Neill, Matthew. Stoves 144 

Osgood & Thompson, Scale M'fr's 86 



Ostrom, E. L. , Pharmacist, 157 

Ostrom. Barnes & Co., Cigar M'fr's 37 

Otis Bros., Pharmacists, 99 

Parker, Geo. L.. Coal 136 

Patten. A. S. & Bro.. Provisions 189 

Persels & Mack. Harness M fr's . . 58 

Rahilly. W. F. & Co., Wholesale W' ines 67 

Reuben. R.. Tailor 147 

Reynolds, Rogers l^' Co., Cigar M'f 'rs 38 

Rich Bros., Insurance 113 

Richards, F. B. & Co . Cigar M'fr's 73 

Riley Business College. The,. 104 

Roberson, Alonzo, Planing Mill ... 151 

Rogers, F. H.. Stationery 143 

Russell, John M.. Cigar M'fr. 85 

Saunders. C. L. & Son. Dressed Beef 39 

Searles. J. E.. Tobacconist. 48 

Sears. Chas. W. Bookseller.. . ..135 

Sears, (I. W.. Coal Dealer ..'65 

See'tv Mutual Life Asso'tn, Binghamton. N. Y 81 

Shap'ley & Wells, Machinists. ..116 

Singer M'f'g Co., The, Sewing Machines 115 

Sisson Bros". & Welden. Dry Goods. 123 

Smith. C. A., Cigar M'fr. 65 

Smith, C. B., Jr., & Co., M'fr's of Cigars 35 

Smith. E. C. & Co., Spokes and Hubs 97 

Smith. W. S. & Sons. Diniggists and Grocers 105 

Star Electric Co 76 

St ejiheiis L*t Miller, Paper Warehouse. . 150 

Stevens, W. D, Contractor 64 

Stickley & Brandt, Furniture 122 

Stickley & Brandt. Chair Co 118 

Stone & Germoiid. Shoe Mfrs 92 

Sti me A: Sanders. Paints and' Oils 58 

Stow Manufacturing Co.. Flexible Shafts 118-119 

Sturtevant-Lanabee Co., The, Carriage Mfrs 75 

Talbot. J. B. & Co., Hides and Pelts 36 

U. S. Baking Co 50 

Vandebogart's Paper Box Factory 80 

Vickers & Brooker, Phunbers 109 

Weed, J. B. & Co., Tanners 42 

Weed. L. I.. Cabinet Work Ill 

AVells, Chas. C. & Co., Cigar Mfrs 82 

W^hite. J. D., Awnings 120 

White & C<i. . Wholesale Liquors 98 

Wiiitnev-Xoves Seed Co., The, Grass Seeds 128 

Wiednian ShoeCo 52 

Wilkinson Manufacturing Co., Sleds and Chairs.. .153 

Wilkinson. Son <t Co , Tanners 37 

Wilkinson & Eastwood. Mfrs. of Chairs 53 

Williams & Rosenkrans. Pharmacists 156 

Wilson. A. G., Insurance 92 

Winkler, A.. Paper Maker 145 

Winton & Harroun, Brass Finishers, 78 

Woodruff, Charles, Cisrar Box Mfr 97 

Young, Wm. T'., Cooper 43 



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